<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>NASA has provided imagery of the crash site of ispace’s private lunar lander mission that experienced a hard landing on the Moon's surface earlier this month.</li><li>ispace made a second attempt with its RESILIENCE lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon but lost communication with the lander after landing.</li><li>NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the crash site in Mare Frigoris, showing a dark smudge surrounded by a bright halo caused by regolith disturbance.</li><li>The failure follows ispace's unsuccessful attempt in April 2023 to soft-land its M1 lunar lander on the Moon.</li><li>ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander likely crashed in 2023, marking the company's first failed lunar landing attempt.</li><li>Only five countries have succeeded in robotic lunar landings, with the US being the only nation to land astronauts on the Moon.</li><li>Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace have achieved successful private lunar landings in 2024 and 2025 respectively, prior to ispace's failed attempts.</li></ul>

NASA Shows Photos Of Crashed ispace Lander

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