A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

The company’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS where expected to land near the moon’s Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) region, which is in the moon’s northern ...