Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

LRO and Chandrayaan-2 captured debris of Japan’s crashed moon lander Rangefinder failure led to Resilience’s uncontrolled high-speed descent ispace confirms crash cause and plans future missions with ...

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar ...

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 ...

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

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