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

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

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

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

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

Ispace emerged from a Japanese team that had aimed to win the Google Lunar X Prize, which offered $20 million for the first privately financed venture to land on the moon.

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

Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first non-U.S. company to achieve a controlled moon landing as it prepares for the touchdown of its second uncrewed spacecraft on Friday, two years after ...

Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If successful, it would have been the first private-sector lunar lander built outside ...