The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

Japanese moon exploration company ispace said its Resilience lander will attempt a lunar touchdown at 4:24 a.m. on June 6 local time (1924 GMT on June 5) at the earliest, in its second attempt after ...

March 4 (UPI) -- Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on June 6. Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada held a press conference Monday to ...

The mission, which includes a 350kg rover, will be developed in collaboration with Japan. ISRO is also working on Chandrayaan-4, focusing on sample collection, and has outlined plans for an ...

Japan's Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched ...

The Resilience lander from Ispace of Japan. It was launched on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that sent Blue Ghost to the moon.Credit...ispace, via Associated Press After two landings four days ...

Japanese moon exploration company ispace said its Resilience ... Key initiatives include lunar landings through NASA’s CLPS and Japan’s M2/Resilience, which will test new technologies and ...

It was the second moon landing this week by a Texas company under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery ... And only four other countries have successfully landed robotic spacecraft on the moon: Russia, ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The win comes just four days after Russia's crash-landing. Japan lands sideways Japan becomes the fifth country to land successfully on the moon, with its spacecraft touching down in January.

When the Blue Ghost lander reached the lunar surface on March 2, Firefly Aerospace become the first commercial company to fully succeed in a soft moon landing at the first attempt. A week on ...

But landing on the moon remains onerous ... then in a post on X. The Japanese moon lander SLIM, short for Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, experienced a similar outcome.