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

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

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

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 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.

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

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

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

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

The private ispace Resilience lander will land on the moon at 3:17 p.m. EDT today (June 5), but only if the company pursues ...

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space successfully launched their Axiom-4 mission early Wednesday, sending four astronauts in what is ...