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

Japanese startup ispace Inc. said Tuesday its latest failure to land a spacecraft on the Moon was due to an altimeter abnormality, while vowing to pursue another attempt in 2027. The Tokyo-based ...

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

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

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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...

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

the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander on Earth’s little sister. In January of this year, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday (June 6, 2025), the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the ...

TOKYO -Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon's surface during its lunar touchdown attempt on Friday, marking another failure two years after its ...