By Kantaro Komiya and Nivedita Bhattacharjee TOKYO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Japan's Astroscale, a company specialised in ...

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 ...

TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) - Japanese moon exploration company ispace (9348.T), opens new tab said its Resilience lander will attempt a lunar touchdown at 4:24 a.m. on June 6 local time (1924 GMT on ...

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 ...

Japan will provide a subsidy of up to 12 billion yen ($80 million) to moon exploration startup ispace as part of a grant program for innovative ventures, industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...

The two other landers — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and Japanese company ispace’s Hakuto-R lander Resilience — shared a ride to space from KSC in January, but both had slower trajectories.