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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.
Japanese company ispace said the recent "hard landing" of its attempted lunar landing was due to a failure of the Laser Range Finder. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI June 24 (UPI) --Japanese company ...
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash ...
A Japanese company, ispace, ... Company representatives indicated that the crash was caused by the lander's laser range finder, which did not accurately measure the distance to the lunar surface.
The Tokyo-based private space exploration company ispace reported that its Resilience lunar lander successfully initiated its descent onto the moon, but lost communication shortly afterward.
ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE), the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, inc., and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a payload services ...