Japanese firm ispace's Resilience lander is thought to have crashed after the company said it lost communication with the spacecraft as it approached the lunar surface. The Tokyo-based firm was vying ...

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Japanese firm ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon, potentially becoming Asia's first private company ...

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

The failed lunar mission follows ispace’s first attempt in 2023, which also ended with a bang. That craft, the Hakuto-R lunar ...

S/ Hakamada Takeshi/ After we lost connection with the lander, we attempted to reboot the lander, but we could not ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...

Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon’s surface during its lunar touchdown ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...