This go-around, Ispace aims for a different lunar location: a 750-mile-long (1,200-kilometer) plain called Mare Frigoris — or the “Sea of Cold” — which lies in the moon’s far northern ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

Ispace is targeting an area of the moon called Mare Frigoris — or the “Sea of Cold,” which lies in the far northern reaches of the moon’s near side — for its landing location.

The other is ispace's M2 Lunar Surface Exploration mission with experiments planned for water electrolyzation, deep space ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ispace, inc. (ispace)(TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that its RESILIENCE lunar lander has successfully deployed from a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to launch its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in mid-January. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ...

Japan's Ispace, US's Firefly Launch Commercial Moon Landers By Joey Roulette and Kantaro Komiya ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO (Reuters) -Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S ...

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies aiming to expand business on the moon. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost will arrive first, conducting NASA ...

The other is ispace's M2 Lunar Surface Exploration mission ... The plan is for the rover to find a suitable location on a raised surface, without too much dust, Genberg said, where the house ...