The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

After minutes of waiting, the broadcast ended with ispace spokespeople saying they would try to have answers at a news conference later in the day. Hours later, company executives said they assume the ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration ...

The European Space Agency's ESTRACK ground network will support communication between the lander and ispace's Mission Control Center in Tokyo. The mission is also part of a grander ispace vision.

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

After failing to nail a lunar landing in 2023, ispace is once again vying to become the first commercial company in Japan to successfully perform a soft landing on the moon. It’s also set to ...

A spacecraft from Japan attempting to make the country's first private moon landing on Thursday instead crashed into the ... or deploy the small Tenacious rover built by the European Space Agency.