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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon ...

Japanese company ispace plans for 2nd lunar mission attempt; In January of this year, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...