Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its ... a low energy transfer orbit", ispace says. Landing on the Moon is highly challenging due to its lack of atmosphere ...

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system ...

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight ... A successful pinpoint landing by SLIM, especially on the moon, would raise Japan’s profile in the global space technology ...

Related: Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of ... to Earth's nearest neighbor — one that didn't have a target landing date until Monday. (Previously, ispace had said ...

A Japanese attempt to make lunar history appears to have failed. Engineers say the privately funded moon lander likely made what's known as a "hard landing," and communication with it has been lost.

Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space ...

Japanese company iSpace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing failed after it lost contact with its lander. The craft was expected to release an exploratory rover and a robot on ...