The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

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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 ...

He told Spectrum News that ispace is planning its future missions to the moon, adding that its U.S. branch in Denver is already working on the next model of the lunar lander. Understanding the ...

“We are already preparing for future missions with development under way. ispace-U.S. is developing our next model of lunar lander, one that has 10x the payload capacity of RESILIENCE, so we ...

Japanese space company's loss of lunar lander contact "doesn't look great," former astronaut says 03:28. Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese ...

Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured its first sunrise on the moon, marking the beginning of the lunar day and the start of surface operations in its new home. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Last weekend, ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover. Japanese probe's second straight attempt at moon landing a failure ...