Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time.

Mr. Hakamada, the Ispace chief executive, announced during a video live feed to a crowd gathered at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo that the lander had been lost.

The mission is based on ispace's roughly 2,200-pound (1,000 kilograms) HAKUTO-R lander and will be the firm's second effort at a moon landing. The first attempt, in April 2023, failed due to an ...

Japanese company ispace finally knows what caused its beloved lunar lander to crash on the surface of the Moon. The unlikely culprit behind the lander’s free-fall appears to have been a large ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - 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 ...

Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of Japanese firm ispace, bows after explaining that the communication of the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander developed by ispace has been cut off, in Tokyo on April 26, 2023.

TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Japanese space exploration company ispace (9348.T) will launch its second moon landing mission as early as in December, chief executive Takeshi Hakamada said on Thursday.

Officials of ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission look at live broadcasting of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for ispace at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Tokyo, Japan December 11, 2022.

The Japanese moon venture known as ispace says it has recruited new corporate partners and struck a deal to put a commercial payload on its Hakuto-R lunar lander.

Japan’s ispace strikes deal with SpaceX for launches to the moon in 2020 and 2021 by Alan Boyle on September 26, 2018 at 7:58 pm Share 377 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

ispace, which has headquarters in Japan, Luxembourg, and the US, has raised nearly $95 million, and it will use that money to help fund these first two Falcon 9 flights.