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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

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

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...

As humanity moves closer to extracting and using space resources, the need for a cohesive and responsible global governance ...

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