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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Takeshi Hakamada, ispace's president and founder, revealed that the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lander is believed to have crashed while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05, 2025.

ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 2 approaches the moon on Friday, May 16, 2025. HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS are expected to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05.

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also known as the Sea of Cold—where ispace’s “Resilience” lander and its mini ...

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