The Luxembourg-based iSpace EUROPE will be responsible for transporting a UNESCO cultural heritage payload to the Moon, dubbed a modern-day Rosetta Stone. Based on the payload service contract, the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Japanese company ispace says it failed to successfully land its HAKUTO-R lunar craft landed on the Moon on Tuesday afternoon. In an update Tuesday evening on the East Coast ...

Resilience, a lunar lander produced by the Japanese aerospace firm Ispace, has crashed into the Moon's surface. The lander was Ispace's second failed attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to launch its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in mid-January. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ...

Our original story follows below. A Japanese aerospace firm called Ispace is set to put a spacecraft on the Moon this week. Resilience, the star of Ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 2, has spent nearly ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander. Flight controllers scrambled to gain contact, but were met with only ...

Tense ispace Mission Control Center workers await word if their second lunar lander made it to the Moon. Credit: ispace The death toll for spacecraft attempting soft landings on the Moon notched ...

Following its failed attempt to achieve a successful landing on the moon in 2023, there were high hopes that Japanese startup ispace would succeed on its second attempt early on Friday local time.

Japanese startup Ispace has announced that its Resilience lunar lander has completed all planned orbital maneuvers while circling the moon and is now being readied for a landing attempt scheduled ...