Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

AP) A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to land on the moon with its HAKUTO-R Mission 2. (Artist rendition/ispace) ...

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

Bad software caused ispace’s first lunar lander to slam into the moon in 2023. Like the latest try, the problem occurred ...