A model of the lunar lander Resilience, operated by ispace, is displayed at a venue where employees will monitor its landing on the moon, in Tokyo, Japan, Jun 6, 2025. (Photo: Reuters/Manami Yamada) ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, could not decelerate fast enough as it approached the moon, and the company has not been able to communicate with the spacecraft after a likely hard ...

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.

Resilience, ispace’s second lunar lander, targeted Mare Frigoris, a basaltic plain about 900 km (560 miles) from the moon’s north pole.

TOKYO — Japanese company ispace said it has not been able to establish communication with its uncrewed moon lander Resilience after its lunar touchdown attempt on Friday (June 6). Two years ...

Japan's ispace fails again: Resilience lander crashes on moon Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast ...

ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that the flight model of its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE lun ...

In addition to RESILIENCE lander progress updates, ispace announced its primary landing site for Mission 2 will be near the center of Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold), 60.5 degrees north latitude and 4 ...

The startup's Resilience lander failed to attain a soft touchdown on Thursday. The company plans its next attempted lunar landing for 2027.

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

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 ...

Japanese space startup Ispace is preparing to launch its second lunar lander on Wednesday, aiming to achieve a historic milestone in private-sector space exploration. The Resilience lander, part ...