Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

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