IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 1:24 scale model of the Surveyor ...

Japanese space startup Ispace is preparing to launch its second lunar lander on Wednesday, aiming to achieve a historic milestone in private-sector space exploration. The Resilience lander, part of ...

WASHINGTON — Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5. Resilience was scheduled to land at 3:17 p.m. Eastern at Mare Frigoris, ...

Japanese startup Ispace has concluded that a hardware anomaly in a laser-based landing sensor caused the failure of its Mission 2 lunar landing earlier this month, the company announced Tuesday. The ...

Launched on August 5, 2022, South Korea's first lunar orbiter 'Danuri', which has had its mission extended twice, is scheduled to transition to a 'frozen orbit' on September 24 next month. At that ...

China has completed a critical landing and take-off test of its crewed lunar lander, moving a step closer to putting astronauts on the moon before 2030. A prototype of the four-legged Lanyue lander – ...

At 8:34 UTC on March 2, 2025 (17:34 Japan time), the American space company Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander ' Blue Ghost ' successfully landed on the moon, becoming the second private aircraft to do ...

This photo provided by ispace in January 2025 shows the Resilience lunar lander. (ispace via AP, File) A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before ...