The story of the Japanese lander was written at the beginning of the month, when, while coming down to touch the surface of the Moon in the Mare Frigoris region, it lost contact with mission ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.

The crash landing was the second for ispace in two years. This time, the company’s lander named Resilience was aiming for the moon’s far north in Mare Frigoris, or Sea of Cold.

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

This time, the company’s lander named Resilience was aiming for the moon’s far north in Mare Frigoris, or Sea of Cold.