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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...
NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...
Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...
Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...
During a press conference on Thursday night (Friday morning in Japan where it was held), ispace officials revealed that the HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE crashed onto the moon’s surface ...
Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...
The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to launch its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in mid-January. ... The mission specs for RESILIENCE and TENACIOUS.
The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon at incredible detail. Its data has also been of immense value to other ...
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 ...
Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.
The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...
The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed. Company representatives stated that the crash was caused by the lander's ...