A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct ...

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

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

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

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor ...

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

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, ...

The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed.

Firefly Aerospace says it plans to offer a commercial lunar imaging service for use by governments and companies.