In a press release, ispace stated that based on available information, a laser rangefinder used to measure the distance of the moon’s surface had delays in collecting measurements.

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Ispace, like other businesses, does not have “infinite funds” and cannot afford repeated failures, Jeremy Fix, chief engineer for ispace’s U.S. subsidiary, said at a conference last month.

Laser-driven acceleration is a promising path towards more compact machines. Now, proton beams with energies up to 150 MeV have been achieved with a repetitive petawatt laser.

Although many daily necessities are translucent object, it is difficult to measure the shape of translucent object with traditional 3D scamming approach. We observed the behavior of the light path and ...

This paper presents a laser obstacle detection system for mobile robot navigation. Algorithms for segmentation, where the set of measurements from 2D laser range finder is separated into segments ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo-based space startup ispace has officially confirmed the failure of its lunar landing mission, after losing communication with its lander during descent in the early hours of Friday.