KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon.

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

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

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

A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out ...

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

Japanese startup ispace Inc. said Tuesday its latest failure to land a spacecraft on the Moon was due to an altimeter ...

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

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