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

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.

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to crash on the Moon.

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Still, ispace says it will push forward with its missions 3 and 4. The upcoming missions are part of a growing wave of private lunar efforts, many of which support NASA’s broader Artemis program.

The panel was part of the ispace U.S. and Commercial Space Federation lunar landing watch event for the Hakuto-R Mission 2 on June 5.

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After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist.

China, in collaboration with Russia and other countries, has also set a goal of building a lunar base by 2045. India also has ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics ...

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