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Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...
The Resilience lander stopped transmitting just 192 meters from the surface, likely crashing into the moon. A Japanese ...
A private lunar lander from Japan has crashed into the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander on ...
This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.
Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon’s surface during its lunar touchdown ...
Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after ...
Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.
Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was ...
On June 5, 2025, a private Japanese spacecraft, Resilience, experienced a sudden loss of communication with mission control ...
A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...
A Japanese company had hoped that the second time would be the charm for putting a robotic lander on the moon. But it appears to have failed again.
In February 2024, Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to make a soft landing on the Moon ...