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

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 in the ...

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

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

Even before Resilience’s landing attempt, ispace-U.S. incorporated lessons learned from ispace-Japan’s first mission in 2023. ispace-U.S.’s next generation lander, called APEX-1.0 builds ...

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

Alas, the lander that carried it, another ispace machine called Resilience, crashed on the surface of the Moon on June 6. Resilience took off on January 15 on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ...

NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after Ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into the Mare ...

Resilience was descending at a rapid rate of 138 feet (42 meters) per second when contact was lost, and crashed five seconds later, they said. Bad software caused ispace's first lunar lander to ...

NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after Ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into the Mare ...

Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash landing was the second for ispace in two years. This time, the company’s lander named Resilience was aiming ...