Takeshi Hakamada, ispace's president and founder, revealed that the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lander is believed to have crashed while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05, 2025.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

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

This isn't the first time iSpace has attempted a lunar landing. In 2023, its lander failed due to software issues, and this latest attempt appears to be much the same, albeit affecting a different ...

ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 2 approaches the moon on Friday, May 16, 2025. HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS are expected to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05.

ispace attempted the moon landing at 3:17 EDT but lost contact shortly before touchdown.. The mission proceeded as expected until losing contact with the lander immediately prior to touching down ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

The first Ispace mission aimed to land in the middle of Atlas Crater, a 54-mile-wide depression in the northeast quadrant on the near side of the moon. But Ispace lost contact with the lander ...

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

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the moon's northern hemisphere, on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT).

He went on to say that iSpace was still committed to hitting its next launch window, which would send another spacecraft to the Moon sometime in 2027 using the company's new Apex 1.0 lander.