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.

This isn't the first time iSpace has attempted a lunar landing. In 2023, its lander failed due to software issues, and this latest attempt appears to be much the same, albeit affecting a different ...

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

Private lunar lander mission declared a failure after apparently crashing while attempting touchdown Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on ...

TOKYO — A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission ...

More NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 ...

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

He went on to say that iSpace was still committed to hitting its next launch window, which would send another spacecraft to the Moon sometime in 2027 using the company's new Apex 1.0 lander.

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...

People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan.