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JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
TOKYO — (AP) — Japan on Sunday launched a satellite to monitor greenhouse gas emissions using its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship designed to ...
The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...
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 ...
NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...
The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...
Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...
Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.
A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...
In April 2023, ispace's first lander crashed on the Moon due to a similar altitude measurement problem. The spacecraft thought it was on the surface of the Moon, but was actually firing its engine ...
A Japanese private lunar lander lost communication during its descent to the moon on Friday, leaving its fate unclear. Tokyo-based ispace confirmed that the lander, named Resilience, successfully ...