Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...

In recent years, several spacecraft failed in their attempts to land on the moon. But 2025 may offer crucial second chances.

The ispace team reviewed all the aspects of the ... This was all done to iron out “the issues that caused the hard landing,” he explained. “Finally, we have found efficiencies in assembly ...

It took the landers from the US company Firefly Space and iSpace from Japan on their way to the moon. The first of the two landers is expected to arrive there at the beginning of March.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ispace, inc. (ispace)(TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that its RESILIENCE lunar lander has successfully deployed from a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

They shared the ride to save money, taking separate roundabout routes for the monthslong journey.It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago.

The vehicle subsequently ran out of propellant and crashed to the surface. That problem has been corrected, ispace says, prompting the company to name its second Hakuto lander "Resilience." ...