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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 ]
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, is an uncrewed probe from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. An engine failure forced the probe to make an unplanned upside-down landing on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...