The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an anomaly in the Laser Range Finder.

June 24 (UPI) -- Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an anomaly in the Laser Range Finder. In the analysis of the ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

Interestingly, while the laser range finder was found to be at fault, iSpace did confirm that the landing guidance control software didn't fail; it was merely fed the wrong information by the ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...