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. A lander built by Japanese ...

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

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

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

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

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

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

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

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

NASA's Lunar Orbiter has found the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The spacecraft reportedly lost contact ...

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

As it became apparent the spacecraft was lost, the team and guests gathered in Washington DC, Tokyo, Denver, Luxembourg and those tuning in to the worldwide livestream were viscerally reminded that ...