A lander built by Japanese company ispace crashed on the lunar surface while attempting to make the nation's first private moon landing earlier this month — and now we know why. Today (June 24), isp… [+3585 chars]...
Read moreNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 in t… [+2455 chars]...
Read moreJapans ispace sheds light on what may have caused the Resilience lunar lander failure. The Moon is an unforgiving place. Early in June, ispaces Hakuto-R2 Resilience lunar lander became the latest in… [+3864 chars]...
Read moreOn June 11, NASAs LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon (RESILIENCE) lunar lander experienced a hard landing on June 5… [+1363 chars]...
Read moreOn January 15th, 2025, the Japanese commercial space company ispace launched its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Resilience to the Moon. On June 5th, 2025, the lander crashed down on the lunar surface due to a ma… [+1269 chars]...
Read moreChinese commercial launch firm Landspace is preparing for the first flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket, with a debut launch targeted for the final quarter of 2025. Zhuque-3 is a stainless steel rocket … [+2604 chars]...
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