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.

Japanese company ispace's Resilience lander will attempt to touch down on the moon. "The solar-powered lander carried five ...

After firing its main engine, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander built by Ispace of Japan dropped out of lunar orbit. About an hour later, at 12:40 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, ...

Japanese startup ispace inc's failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday.

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.

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese company ispace said it has not been able to establish communication with its uncrewed moon lander following its lunar touchdown attempt on Friday, two ...

Japanese company ispace finally knows what caused its beloved lunar lander to crash on the surface of the Moon. The unlikely culprit behind the lander’s free-fall appears to have been a large ...

Japanese company ispace aimed to be the first private enterprise to land on the moon, but lost communication and is investigating the attempt’s result. Skip to content. Main Navigation.

Japan's ispace Resilience lander looks back on Earth from the moon | Space photo of the day for June 6, 2025 . Private Japanese moon lander crashed due to laser errors, ispace says.

The Japanese Hakuto lunar lander likely made a hard landing on the moon's surface on Tuesday. Ispace said that it lost communications with the lander and was not receiving data.

Shares of Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. tumbled by the daily limit of 20% after the company said its lander bound for the moon probably crashed on the lunar surface.

Japanese space startup Ispace Inc. will reach for the moon again after its first attempt to land a rover on the lunar surface in April ended in failure.. The second mission will launch on a SpaceX ...