The Journal of Space Commerce

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Resilience Lander Experienced a "Hard Landing"

Laser Rangefinder Malfunction Cited as Cause of the Mishap

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Tom Patton
Jun 06, 2025
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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…

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