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According to JAXA, SLIM may now have enough power to continue its work through Thursday. It remains to be seen if the probe will be able to resume work following the upcoming roughly two-week ...
Japan’s SLIM mission, which landed on the moon in January, woke up and captured new images of its landing site after being dormant for most of February.
On 29 January, the lander resumed operations after being shut for a week. JAXA said it re-established contact with the lander and its solar cells were working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight. [16] After that, SLIM was put in sleep mode for impending harsh lunar night. SLIM was expected to operate only for ...
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 ...
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 ]
Slim guided itself down to land in an autonomous 20-minute descent from 15 km above the moon’s surface. Live coverage showed information from the lander that indicated that landing was going as ...
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 ...
Sora-Q is a miniature Lunar rover designed and made by Japanese space agency JAXA, toy manufacturer Tomy, Sony, and Doshisha University. [ 1 ] It was launched to the Moon first on the failed Hakuto-R Mission 1 in 2022, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and on 2023 Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission, where it is officially called the Lunar Excursion Vehicle ...