Japan makes historic moon landing but mission remains up in the air Japan's probe has managed to land on the moon - becoming the fifth country to touch down on the surface. But a problem involving its solar panels means it can't generate its own power. Japan has become the fifth coun...
The SLIM lander, nicknamed "moon sniper," touched down about 20 minutes past midnight Japan time on Saturday morning. Designed to land within 100 meters (328 feet) of its target, the lightweight lander was launched in September by the H2-A heavy payload rocket co-developed by Mitsubishi ...
In January 2024,Japan became the fifth country to land a spacecraft(航天器) on the moon. The purpose was to carry out an exact landing and to collect information about the moon.The spacecraft tried to land within 100 meters of its target(目标), instead of within several kilometers.This ...
Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.”
TOKYO (AP) — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday. However, space officials said they needed more time to analyze
Japan has become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, but it was a tense wait for contact with the "sniper" probe after it touched down. We've had an update from the Japanese space agency - which is communicating with the probe but faces a
Japan launched a rocket Wednesday night, carrying a moon probe that it hopes to land on the lunar surface and would make Japan the fifth country to reach the moon.
[01:27.60]"to try to land on unexplored places on the moon." [01:34.68]One of the lander's two main engines [01:38.24]stopped working during the landing, [01:41.48]causing SLIM to move 55 meters away [01:46.60]from the ta...
to land on the moon. Japan now hopes to make the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/John Raoux, ...
Japanis moving forward with plans to land a spacecraft on Phobos, a moon ofMars, according to arecent announcement. If it works, this mission will make Japan the first in the history to successfully touchdown on the surface of the Martian moon, and possibly the first round-tripmissionto th...