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

A malfunction in a laser navigation tool led to the crash of a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Japanese startup ispace Inc. said Tuesday its latest failure to land a spacecraft on the Moon was due to an altimeter abnormality, while vowing to pursue another attempt in 2027. The Tokyo-based ...

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

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

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.

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...

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

In January of this year, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Center 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

A successful mission would have made ispace the first company outside the US to achieve a moon landing. Resilience, ispace’s second lunar lander, could not decelerate fast enough as it approached the ...

According to the company’s early findings, the laser range-finder that Resilience used to calculate ... Given those findings, ispace concluded that its signature spacecraft “likely performed ...

Japan’s private lunar lander crashed while attempting a touchdown on Friday, marking the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a ...