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Private Japanese lunar lander makes descent to surface of the moon, but fate is unknown
A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...
Resilience spacecraft likely crashed into the moon, Ispace confirms
Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If ...
Private lunar lander closing in on unexplored top of the moon
A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored ...
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Japanese spacecraft goes dark during attempted moon landing. Its payload would have been a world-first.
Earth lost contact with the private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" during an attempted moon landing on Thursday. The lander ...
It’s still really hard to land on the moon – can this Japanese company pull it off?
A Japanese company, ispace, is attempting a second lunar landing tomorrow, Why is it still so hard to land on the moon?
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Landing on the Moon is an incredibly difficult feat — here’s how 2025 is shaping up
Safely reaching the surface of Earth's satellite is hard. 2025 has brought both successes and shortfalls for companies and ...
What a commercial crewed moon mission could look like
Lunar Commercial Orbital Transfer Services will likely allow visits of private astronauts to the moon, just as Commercial ...
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Surveyor 1 Makes History With First Spacecraft to Achieve Soft Landing on the Moon
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On June 2, 1966, Surveyor 1 made history as the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. The robotic probe touched down in Oceanus Procellarum—Latin ...
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Space Ops: Blue Origin Poised To Leapfrog SpaceX To The Moon
Engineers floated the idea of using the Mark 1 (MK1) as a mass simulator, if needed, for the first launch of Blue Origin’s ...