Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...

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

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...

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

Japanese company ispace plans for 2nd lunar mission attempt; In January of this year, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...

Bad software caused ispace’s first lunar lander to slam into the moon in 2023. Like the latest try, the problem occurred ...