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2. Smart Lander for Investigating Moon - Wikipedia

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   Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), dubbed "Moon Sniper", was a lunar lander mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The lander's initial launch date in 2021 [ 2 ] [ 9 ] was postponed until 2023 due to delays in its rideshare , the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). [ 10 ]

3. Japan’s lunar lander reaches the moon but is rapidly losing ...

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   The uncrewed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission landed just after 10:20 a.m. ET Friday (12:20 a.m. Saturday Japan Standard Time), according to telemetry data shared on JAXA’s ...

4. Japan says its lunar lander has enough power to do some of ...

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   The probe is sending pictures of its landing site back to Earth, ... According to JAXA, SLIM may now have enough power to continue its work through Thursday. It remains to be seen if the probe ...

5. Why is Japan's 'moon sniper' landing mission important? - AOL

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   Dubbed the "moon sniper", SLIM will put to the test an experimental technology the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says is unprecedented and essential to searching for water, and other ...

6. Japanese Lunar Exploration Program - Wikipedia

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   On 27 March 2024, SLIM survived its second lunar night and woke up sending more images back to Earth, showing "perseverance." [ 19 ] Jaxa said "According to the acquired data, some temperature sensors and unused battery cells are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was maintained even after ...

7. Japan's SLIM moon craft short on power after successful ... - AOL

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   The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed the moon's surface at around 12:20 a.m. (1520 GMT Friday), but its solar panels were not ...

8. IM-1 - Wikipedia

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   [29] [30] Also included onboard is the AstroVault by Quantum Aerospace which includes an archive of musical recordings and photos, which features songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and Elvis Presley, among other musicians. [31] [32] A Radio Frequency Mass Gauge (RFMG) on board estimated how much propellant was available during the IM-1 mission ...

9. Japan becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

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   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. Space officials ...