Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and freezing equivalent to two Earth weeks. "Last night, a command was sent to #SLIM and a response received," national space ...
SLIM's not dead yet. The SLIM spacecraft, Japan's first-ever successful moon lander, has survived the long, cold lunar night for the second time. Mission team members announced the news via X on ...
Japan's SLIM moon lander has seemingly defied death — for a second time. After being powered down on Jan. 31 for what was assumed to be a mission-ending, two-week-long sleep in the freezing ...
Japan’s space agency said on Monday its SLIM moon lander has unexpectedly survived a freezing lunar night and re-established communication with the earth, more than a month after the spacecraft ...
Japan's Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched ...
The cold lunar night may have finally swallowed Japan's SLIM moon lander — 'We proved that you can land wherever you want.' Japan's SLIM moon probe nailed precise lunar landing, JAXA says ...
Japanese space exploration firm ispace is gearing up for its second shot at landing on the moon. The mission, featuring a lander ... Japan's ispace will fly a tiny European-built lunar rover ...
TOKYO: Japan’s space agency said on Monday it had ended its Moon lander operation after losing ... only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...
Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system ...
Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and ...
Japan has called an end to its SLIM moon ... lander made a successful, yet lopsided, landing on the rim of Shioli Crater on Jan. 19 this year. Designed to operate for a single lunar day on the ...