Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time.

ISpace's private Resilience Lander will attempt to touch down on the Mare Frigoris region of the moon 's surface on June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT). While you won’t be able to see the lander ...

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander arrived in orbit around the moon on Tuesday (May 6), a month ahead of its planned ...

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.

Whether Resilience lands safely or not, ispace is forging ahead. Its next mission, set for 2026, will debut a larger lander, Apex 1.0, aimed at expanding Japan's role in the growing lunar economy.

Even before Resilience’s landing attempt, ispace-U.S. incorporated lessons learned from ispace-Japan’s first mission in 2023. ispace-U.S.’s next generation lander, called APEX-1.0 builds ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough, the company said, adding it has not been able to ...

The Resilience lunar lander (illustrated, left), owned by Tokyo-based company ispace, attempted to touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft contains several payloads, including ...

UPDATE: Jun. 6, 2025, 10:21 a.m. EDT Executives at ispace have called the mission off, stating it was unlikely they would be able to restore contact with the Resilience lander.

The Ispace Tenacious rover (top) is seen carried by the Resilience lunar lander at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in September 2024. - Toru Hanai/Bloomberg/Getty Images ...

Elaborating on the lander’s final moments, ispace said that commands to execute the landing sequence were transmitted at 3:13 a.m. Tokyo time. “The Resilience lander then began the descent phase.

Whether Resilience lands safely or not, ispace is forging ahead. Its next mission, set for 2026, will debut a larger lander, Apex 1.0, aimed at expanding Japan's role in the growing lunar economy.