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

TOKYO -- Despite two successive failures to land a lunar probe on the moon, Japanese startup ispace has not deviated from its plans to commercialize lunar transportation.

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.

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Japanese company ispace says it failed to successfully land its HAKUTO-R lunar craft landed on the Moon on Tuesday afternoon. In an update Tuesday evening on the East Coast ...

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

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

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The cras… ...

Tokyo-based venture firm ispace says its second failed attempt to land a lunar lander on the surface of the moon was due to a problem with hardware used to measure the lander's altitude.

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

The Expo Association ranks it as the ninth-best foreign pavilion (assuming that Japan’s is naturally best). “A Japanese ...