Overview

• India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter independently recorded the impact zone, but ISRO has not released those photos.
• The lander lost communication on June 5 during its descent to Mare Frigoris and impacted about 2.4 kilometers from its target.
• The crash wrecked ispace’s micro-rover Tenacious and artist Mikael Genberg’s ‘Moonhouse’ artwork.
• This marks ispace’s second moon landing failure since April 2023, highlighting the technical hurdles facing private lunar missions.
• ispace plans to apply lessons learned from Resilience for a third NASA-supported landing bid scheduled for 2027.