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A Japanese company called iSpace is launching its second lunar landing attempt, the first having failed in April 2023. The company will attempt to touch down on the lunar surface with a tiny ...

While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of ...

The primary objective of the mission is to measure the ionizing radiation environment between the Earth and the moon ... wrote on social media last year when the probe was handed over to ispace. The ...

These include the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager ... Blue Ghost is to deploy the satellite in lunar orbit. iSpace from Japan is launching its second attempt at a moon landing with ...

The two robotic lunar landers—one from Firefly Aerospace based near Austin, Texas, and another from the Japanese space company ispace—will use their own small engines for the final maneuvers ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Japan-based space startup ispace, Inc.’s Resilience lunar lander was launched on a journey toward the moon from the Kennedy Space Center at 1:10 a.m. on Wednesday. It separated ...

Resilience’s journey is particularly significant for ispace, as it represents the ... The Moon’s harsh environment, characterized by extreme temperatures and limited sunlight, adds another ...

On the Japanese side, Tokyo-based ispace's first attempt to land on ... on navigation and computing in the Moon's harsh radiation environment. Meanwhile, Resilience will take four to five months ...

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday (January 15, 2025) for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick.

In a statement, the Elon Musk-owned company noted that the Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan-based company Ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar lander. It added that a ...