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 ...

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 ...

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

This marks ispace's second failed lunar mission. Its first attempt in 2022 also ended in a crash, prompting the company to name the current lander Resilience.

More 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 ...

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 ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander had problems measuring its distance to the surface. It could not slow its descent fast enough, the company said.

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander captured a nice photo of the moon's south polar region. The probe is gearing up for a June 5 touchdown try.

The RESILIENCE lunar lander had begun a landing sequence in an attempt to make a soft touchdown in the Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region of the moon's northern hemisphere on June 6, 2025 (JST).

The company’s livestream of the attempted landing showed Resilience’s flight data was lost less than two minutes before the planned touchdown time earlier yesterday. The lander had targeted Mare ...

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 ...