"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is pleased to announce that the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) was successfully inserted into lunar orbit at 16:51 (Japan Standard Time, JST) on December 25, 2023," JAXA officials wrote in an update. The spacecraft is in an ellipti...
That was pretty much all we knew about SLIM's status until early Monday morning (Jan. 21), when JAXA gave us another update. And the news was relatively encouraging: The lander has not been declared dead, and its handlers are working toward a possible recovery. Related:Missions to the mo...
Update for 8:05 p.m. ET on Aug. 27:Due to inclement weather, JAXA has scrubbed the planned Aug. 27 launch of the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission that is also carrying the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). A new time has not yet been announced, but ...