Japan's ispace lost contact with its lunar lander, Resilience, moments before its scheduled landing on the Moon's Mare Frigoris. The lander, carrying a rover and experiments, was descending too fast due to a malfunctioning laser rangefinder that failed to accurately measure altitude. This resulted in a hard landing and the mission's failure, marking ispace's second unsuccessful lunar landing attempt. The company plans to analyze the data to determine the cause of the failure.

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