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A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...
President Lisa Campbell met with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President Hiroshi Yamakawa to explore new avenues ...
NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon before the end of this decade, and it's using VR technology to get ready.
As Imhof noted, “Low Earth orbit, where the International Space Station sits, is orbiting 450 kilometres above us. The Moon ...
Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.
Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration ...
The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...
A Japanese company has launched a rocket designed to monitor sea temperature and greenhouse gases as part of its overall ...
The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed. Company representatives stated that the crash was caused by the lander's ...
The H-2A rocket successfully lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, carrying the GOSAT-GW ...
LRO and Chandrayaan-2 captured debris of Japan’s crashed moon lander Rangefinder failure led to Resilience’s uncontrolled high-speed descent ispace confirms crash cause and plans future missions with ...