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, ...

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.

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough.

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

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

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.

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

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

Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. ... Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...

Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. ... Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.