The Japanese company aimed to complete the first moon landing by a private company, but its M1 lander joined numerous spacecraft that have crashed into the lunar surface.

Two countries — Japan and the United Arab Emirates — would lose what would have been their respective countries’ first robotic explorer on the lunar service.

JAXA, a Japanese space agency, intended to test a two-wheeled transformable lunar robot, a small sphere with cameras for surface observations…

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, part of the increasingly active space program of the United Arab Emirates, sent Rashid, a small rover that was to explore the landing site…

The Japanese company aimed to complete the first moon landing by a private company, but its M1 lander joined numerous spacecraft that have crashed into the lunar surface.

Two countries — Japan and the United Arab Emirates — would lose what would have been their respective countries’ first robotic explorer on the lunar service.

JAXA, a Japanese space agency, intended to test a two-wheeled transformable lunar robot, a small sphere with cameras for surface observations…

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, part of the increasingly active space program of the United Arab Emirates, sent Rashid, a small rover that was to explore the landing site…