A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

Ispace would also join Firefly, whose Blue Ghost lander made a pristine landing in March, in becoming the only two companies to complete a fully successful touchdown of a robotic lunar lander.

This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, June 4, 2025. ... Another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15 launched the ispace lander to the moon along with a private Blue Ghost moon lander built by Firefly Aerospace, Space.com reported.

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

Eventually, ispace changed its live feed from a stage with announcers to previous recordings of the creation of the 7.5-foot ... which also took Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander.

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

Ispace would also join Firefly, whose Blue Ghost lander made a pristine landing in March, in becoming the only two companies to complete a fully successful touchdown of a robotic lunar lander.

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

Tokyo-based ispace hopes to join U.S. firms Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace, which have accomplished commercial landings since last year amid an intensifying global race for the moon that ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander as the primary payload and Japan-based ispace's Resilience lander as a secondary payload, from Kennedy Space ...