Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...

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

After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon’s surface during its lunar touchdown ...

The country's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed when the mission was ...

Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.

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 ...

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after ...

On June 5, 2025, a private Japanese spacecraft, Resilience, experienced a sudden loss of communication with mission control ...

TOKYO -- Japan's ispace seeks to become Asia's first private sector company to land successfully on the moon, but it is ...