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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 ]
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 ...
SLIM landed 55 meters from the target landing site, and JAXA announced that it was the world's first successful "pinpoint landing. [24] Although it landed successfully, it landed with the solar panels oriented westwards, facing away from the Sun at the start of lunar day , thereby failing to generate enough power. [ 25 ]
IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned 30 degree angle.
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 ...
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 ...
The JAXA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and Russian space missions. As of October 2024 [update] , the corps has seven active members.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed an Implementation Arrangement (IA) in December 2017 for pre-phase A, phase A study and completed the feasibility report in March 2018 with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) [14] to explore the polar regions of Moon for water [15] with a joint Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX) that would be launched no earlier than 2028.