Japanese company ispace plans to launch Mission 2, its second shot at landing on the moon, this December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Japan's past attempts have also gone wrong, including last year when it sent a lunar probe named Omotenashi as part of the United States'Artemis 1 mission. The size of a backpack, Omotenashi would have been the world's smallest Moon lander, but it was lost. And in April, Japanese start...
Japan is moving ahead with plans to land a spacecraft on Phobos, one of Mars’ moons. If successful, the mission would mark the first time any country has touched down on the surface of the Martian moon and potentially the first round-trip mission to the Mars system. Japan’s space agen...
Japan has postponed the launch of a mission seeking to bring samples of a Martian moon to Earth until 2026, due to problems with the nation's new H3 rocket.
Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.”
Journalists look at a screen showing an image taken by LEV-2 on the moon, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s news conference on the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)'s moon landing mission, in Tokyo, on Jan. 25, 2024.KIM KYUNG-HOON / REUTERS ...
25 January 2024 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Thursday that its first lunar mission landed within 100 meters of its target over the weekend. Japan became the fifth country to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, touched down on the moon ea...
Two other Mars missions are planned in coming days by the U.S. and China. Japan has its own Martian moon mission planned in 2024. Copyright 2020 TheAssociated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed....
Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with plans to have a sample from Mars’ moon Phobos return to Earth by 2029. Mission scientists say they hope to find clues to the origins of Mars two moons, as well as Mars itself, and possib...
Japan’s SLIM lander has sparked a new era of precision landings, with big implications for lunar science and exploration