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This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, ...
A Japanese company plans to build a lunar city within 15 years, but first, it has to survive back-to-back mission failures.
This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.
After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.
Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.
Ispace’s Resilience lander’s months-long journey to the moon ended in a crash yesterday, dashing the Japanese firm’s hopes of becoming the first non-American commercial lander to touch down on the ...
On June 5, 2025, a private Japanese spacecraft, Resilience, experienced a sudden loss of communication with mission control ...
Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...
The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...
A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small ...
The Japanese firm ispace has suffered another setback after its second attempt to land on the Moon ended in failure yesterday. The Hakuto-R Mission 2, also known as Resilience, failed to touch down ...
TOKYO—Japan’s hopes of achieving its first soft landing on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission ...