Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

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

A Japanese spacecraft has probably crashed on the Moon, the second failed landing attempt for Tokyo-based private firm ispace ...

Florida's Space Coast on Hakuto-R Mission 2, ispace's Resilience lander arrived in lunar orbit on May 6. The lander then ...

The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.

After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.

In February 2024, Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to make a soft landing on the Moon ...

A picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace ...