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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 SLIM probe regains power more than a week after moon ...

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   The probe was likely able to generate power thanks to a change in the sunlight's direction, JAXA said. SLIM resumed its operations to analyse the composition of olivine rocks on the lunar surface ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Japan lunar landing: ‘Moon sniper’ mission reaches surface ...

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   As the Slim spacecraft descended, JAXA’s mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that Slim was on the lunar surface. ... At that news conference, JAXA ...

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

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   Scripps News Staff. January 29, 2024 at 5:33 PM. ... 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 ...

8. Japanese Lunar Exploration Program - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ miraculously wakes up on lunar surface

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   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. ... the Moon Sniper entered what JAXA ...