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Japanese company ispace's Resilience lander will attempt to touch down on the moon. "The solar-powered lander carried five ...

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Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to crash on the Moon.

The crash landing was the second for ispace in two years. This time, the company’s lander named Resilience was aiming for the moon’s far north in Mare Frigoris, or Sea of Cold.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the crash site for Tokyo-based ispace's Resilience lander on the moon. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University A private Japanese space company ...

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace’s Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025.