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 ...

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15 launched the ispace lander to the moon along with a private Blue Ghost moon lander built by Firefly Aerospace, Space.com reported.

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

Eventually, ispace changed its live feed from a stage with announcers to previous recordings of the creation of the 7.5-foot ... which also took Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander.

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon.

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

Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. ... Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.

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

Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. ... Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.

Takeshi Hakamada, the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. ... Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly.