Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

Japan’s ispace Pins Botched Lunar Landing On Laser Range Finder is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...