The demise of Resilience is reminiscent of ispace’s first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon in April 2023. That mission also ended in a crash landing after the lander ran out of ...

The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will try again in 2027.

The landing attempt came two years after ispace's first lander malfunctioned during the final stages of its descent to the moon, making a similar hard landing. But Hakamada said it was too early ...

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