Eventually, ispace changed its live feed from a stage with announcers to previous recordings of the creation of the 7.5-foot (2.3-meter) tall lander until one of the presenters broke the silence.

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the ...

TOKYO -- Japan's ispace seeks to become Asia's first private sector company to land successfully on the moon, but it is increasingly clear that support from the public sphere will be key. The ...

After contact was lost, announcers on an ispace livestream signed off with the message: “Never quit the lunar quest.” The mission had also aimed to collect two lunar soil samples and sell them ...

Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon’s surface during its lunar touchdown attempt yesterday, marking another failure two years after its unsuccessful ...

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after communication was lost less than two minutes before ...

TOKYO - Tokyo-based ispace said it will not be able to restore contact with its lunar lander, a blow to Japan’s burgeoning commercial space industry. Its Resilience lander was expected to touch ...

The Tokyo-based private space exploration company ispace reported that its Resilience lunar lander successfully initiated its descent onto the moon, but lost communication shortly afterward ...

This marks ispace's second failed lunar mission. Its first attempt in 2022 also ended in a crash, prompting the company to name the current lander Resilience.

TOKYO (Bloomberg): Tokyo-based ispace Inc.’s second lunar lander attempt failed after it lost contact, a blow to Japan’s burgeoning commercial space industry. Ispace’s Resilience lander did ...

Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to join U.S. firms Intuitive Machines LUNR.O and Firefly Aerospace in making successful commercial moon landings amid a global race that includes state-run lunar missions ...

Ispace, like other businesses, does not have “infinite funds” and cannot afford repeated failures, Jeremy Fix, chief engineer for ispace’s U.S. subsidiary, said at a conference last month.