Ispace's Resilience Lander Crashes in Second Moon Landing Attempt

Japan’s ispace counts down to second moon-landing attempt on Friday | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch

Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first non-U.S. company to achieve a controlled moon landing as it prepares for the touchdown of its second uncrewed spacecraft on Friday, two years after its inaugural mission ended in failure.

Japanese lander fails again in moon landing attempt

TOKYO: Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt on Friday, marking another failure two years after an unsuccessful inaugural mission. Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to join US firms Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace in making successful commercial moon landings amid a global race that includes state-run lunar missions from China and India. Although the failure m…

Japan’s ispace fails second private moon landing attempt

A Japanese company trying to land a spacecraft on the moon Friday said that the unmanned lander is believed to have crashed into the lunar surface. The Tokyo-based private space exploration company ispace reported that its Resilience lunar lander successfully initiated its descent onto the moon, but lost communication shortly afterward. Resilience made its descent from 100 kilometers above the moon’s surface to 20 kilometers normally, and its ma…

The Resilience Spacecraft Likely Crashed on the Moon

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down

A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location

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Japanese rover smashes into Moon in fresh disaster for embattled space company - The Mirror

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after communication was lost less than two minutes before the scheduled grounding