Ispace is niet de enige partij die zich waagt aan maanmissies. Ook Amerikaanse bedrijven zoals Astrobotic, Blue Origin en Intuitive Machines doen mee aan deze nieuwe race naar de ruimte.

Sindsdien is de software verbeterd, meldde ispace. Resilience vervoerde een vierwielige rover en wetenschappelijke instrumenten van Japanse bedrijven en een Taiwanese universiteit.

Key takeaways Mislukte maanlanding Een Japanse maanlander genaamd Resilience, gebouwd door het in Tokio gevestigde bedrijf ispace, is neergestort tijdens zijn poging om op de maan te landen. De ...

This photo provided by ispace in January 2025 shows the Resilience lunar lander. (ispace via AP, File) A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Launched last month, ispace’s Resilience lander will approach the moon in about three months for the company’s second lunar touchdown, after its inaugural attempt failed in 2023.