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The crew of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission sit inside a Dragon training spacecraft at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.
JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This ...
The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to land on the moon with its HAKUTO-R Mission 2. (Artist rendition/ispace) ...
China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.
NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...
Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...
A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out the problem: the Resilience lander couldn't tell where it was in position ...
Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...
A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace’s ...
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.