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If successful, Japan will become just the fifth country to successfully soft-land on the moon. The launch comes days after Indiabecame the fourthwith its Chandrayaan-3 mission. The main mission aims are demonstrating the "pinpoint" landing, while also proving lightweight systems for more economic...
The team for Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has issued a notice of the end of spacecraft operations The SLIM project attempted to communicate again with the long-lived Moon lander on August 22nd and 23rd, but received no response from the probe. “As a result, it was...
INTRODUCTION Japan's first successful lunar landing mission,Smart Lander for Investigating Moon(SLIM),was landed on the Moon on January 19th,2024.SLIM made a precise landing within 100 m of the targeted landing zone(central coordinates 13.316°S,25.251°E),which is located around the Shioli ...
Japan's SLIM moon lander, photographed on the lunar surface in January 2024 by LEV-2, a tiny rover that traveled to the moon with SLIM. (Image credit: JAXA) SLIM had an engine failure during descent that placed it upside down, but otherwise the mission met its goal of getting very clos...
The president of JAXA, Japan’s space agency, said that the landing of the SLIM craft on the Moon was successful. Scientists said they’ll need time to analyze data to determine if all the goals of the mission were achieved.
Japan's first moon mission has likely come to an end after a surprising late-game comeback, with the spacecraft taking one last photo of its surroundings before the deep-freeze of night. The SLIM spacecraft, short forSmart Lander for Investigating the Moon, took the image with an onboard...
survive but also to reboot after each lunar night, re-establishing communication with Earth and continuing its mission. This unexpected resilience can be attributed to its innovative design features, such as the crushable 3D-printed aluminum lattice legs that absorbed the impact of its non-optimal ...
‘ in light of USA-Japan Artemis agreement; Nilesh Desai, director of Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad, declares Shiv Shakti point (Statio Shiv Shakti byIAU designation, 69.373°S, 32.319°E) will bedestination of Chandrayaan-4, building on successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, possibly ...
The feat makes Japan the fifth country to land on the moon, following Russia — then the Soviet Union — the U.S., China and India. Last year, India joined the list of moon landings with itsChandrayaan-3 mission. Japan's SLIM, which stands for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, is ...