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

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

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

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

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

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

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

Today (June 24), ispace released a statement detailing just what went wrong with the lander, named Resilience.The company said the spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly ...

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

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