The Tokyo-based company ispace confirmed the mission as a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

Back in June 2024, two NASA astronauts had no idea that their mission, which was supposed to take less than two weeks, would ...

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 ...

Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If ...

It took Resilience more than four months to reach the Moon after its launch on January 15 by SpaceX. It entered the lunar orbit on May 7 and began its descent from an altitude of 100 kilometres.

The Moon as seen from ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lander Resilience. (Credit: ispace) ...

The company’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS are expected to land near the moon’s Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) region, which is in the moon’s northern hemisphere.