KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This ...

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

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander ...

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

This isn't the first time iSpace has attempted a lunar landing. In 2023, its lander failed due to software issues, and this latest attempt appears to be much the same, albeit affecting a different ...

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the moon's northern hemisphere, on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT).

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

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

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...