Japanese company ispace's Resilience lander will attempt to touch down on the moon. "The solar-powered lander carried five ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.

After firing its main engine, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander built by Ispace of Japan dropped out of lunar orbit. About an hour later, at 12:40 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, ...

Japan's ispace Resilience lander looks back on Earth from the moon | Space photo of the day for June 6, 2025 . Private Japanese moon lander crashed due to laser errors, ispace says.

Japanese startup ispace inc's failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday.

TOKYO -- Despite two successive failures to land a lunar probe on the moon, Japanese startup ispace has not deviated from its plans to commercialize lunar transportation.

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 ...

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.

The Japanese private spaceflight company ispace aims to make history on Thursday (June 5) with its second attempt to land on the moon. The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it ...

Japanese company ispace finally knows what caused its beloved lunar lander to crash on the surface of the Moon. The unlikely culprit behind the lander’s free-fall appears to have been a large ...

Japanese company ispace aimed to be the first private enterprise to land on the moon, but lost communication and is investigating the attempt’s result. Skip to content. Main Navigation.

Japanese space startup Ispace Inc. will reach for the moon again after its first attempt to land a rover on the lunar surface in April ended in failure.. The second mission will launch on a SpaceX ...