The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan. And only the U.S. has put astronauts on the moon, ...

A Japanese-built moon lander called Resilience has crashed during its attempt to softly land on the lunar surface. This was Japan’s second try at reaching the moon with a private spacecraft, and ...

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

This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. Credit: AP ...

Meanwhile, Resilience's flight partner, the Blue Ghost lander, is all set to reach lunar orbit after a translunar injection burn on Feb. 8. Advertisement About Our Ads ...

The Resilience Mission 2 lunar lander was shipped from Japan to Florida after completing a series of ground tests at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center.

Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time.

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop ...

Japan’s ispace aims for a historic landing near the moon’s far north with its Resilience lander, carrying a mini rover and art project, in the latest wave of commercial lunar exploration ...

On such a path, the Resilience lander travels for hundreds of thousands of miles, soaring into deep space and waiting for the moon’s gravity to naturally capture the spacecraft into lunar orbit. In ...

Plans had called for the 7.5-foot Resilience to beam back pictures within hours and for the lander to lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface this weekend.