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.

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

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

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

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.