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

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

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

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

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

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

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

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

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

Bad software caused ispace’s first lunar lander to slam into the moon in 2023. Like the latest try, the problem occurred ...