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.

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

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese company ispace said it has not been able to establish communication with its uncrewed moon lander following its lunar touchdown attempt on Friday, two ...

Since ispace's first landing attempt in 2023, India's Chandrayaan-3 has successfully touched down, Japan's SLIM lander made a successful yet lopsided landing, China's Chang'e 6 collected the first ...

Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first non-U.S. company to achieve a controlled moon landing as it prepares for the touchdown of its second uncrewed spacecraft on Friday, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt on Friday, marking another failure two years after an ...

Japan’s ispace Delays Lunar Lander Mission for NASA Design Update The company is ditching the Series-2 design for the Apex 1.0, which will now launch in 2026.

Japanese lunar exploration company ispace began its long-anticipated first mission on Sunday, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the venture's lunar lander from Florida. "This is the very ...

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 ...