Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon failed. It was all reportedly down to a misfiring laser ...

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

June 24 (UPI) --Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an anomaly in the Laser Range Finder.In the analysis of the ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

Today (June 24), ispace released a statement detailing just what went wrong with the lander, named Resilience.The company said the spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly ...

Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the ... The laser rangefinder used to measure the distance to the lunar surface experienced delays ...

The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed. Company representatives stated that the crash was caused by the lander's ...