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.

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

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

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out the problem: the Resilience lander couldn't tell where it was in position ...

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...