Resilience Lander Experienced a "Hard Landing"
Laser Rangefinder Malfunction Cited as Cause of the Mishap
ispace suffered another setback Thursday when the Hakuto-R Lunar Lander was lost during its landing attempt.
Telemetry was lost from the lander about 65 seconds before the scheduled landing time. After a tense half hour, the ispace commentators on the company live YouTube stream said that the mission control team had been unable to establish communicatio…
