Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time.

Mr. Hakamada, the Ispace chief executive, announced during a video live feed to a crowd gathered at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo that the lander had been lost.

The mission is based on ispace's roughly 2,200-pound (1,000 kilograms) HAKUTO-R lander and will be the firm's second effort at a moon landing. The first attempt, in April 2023, failed due to an ...

Japanese company ispace finally knows what caused its beloved lunar lander to crash on the surface of the Moon. The unlikely culprit behind the lander’s free-fall appears to have been a large ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - 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 ...

The ispace Mission 1 lander was carrying small rovers and payloads for a number of government agencies and companies – including from the U.S., Canada, Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of Japanese firm ispace, bows after explaining that the communication of the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander developed by ispace has been cut off, in Tokyo on April 26, 2023.

Japan's ispace inc said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and probably ...

Officials of ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission look at live broadcasting of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for ispace at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Tokyo, Japan December 11, 2022.

Japan’s ispace strikes deal with SpaceX for launches to the moon in 2020 and 2021 by Alan Boyle on September 26, 2018 at 7:58 pm Share 377 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...