March 28 (UPI) --The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday its SLIM moon lander survived a second lunar night. JAXA said the SLIM -- short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After a successful landing on the moon on January 19, Japan’s SLIM (Smart Lander for ...

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe, making Japan only the fifth country to land an unmanned spacecraft on ...

At an altitude of 5 km, the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make a parallel movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said.

If the lander had not encountered a last-minute ... SLIM's touchdown was estimated to be within meters of the target, JAXA said. SLIM carried two autonomous probes which were released just before ...

More than two decades in development, the SLIM project is JAXA's second lunar landing attempt. It lost contact with the OMOTENASHI lander shortly after launch in 2022. SLIM is designed to land ...

Japan’s most recent venture to the Moon — and JAXA’s first attempt at a lunar landing — was the so-called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, which launched in early ...

Japan's space agency, Jaxa, has confirmed Slim spacecraft's response to commands from Earth, demonstrating its resilience during the harsh lunar nights. Despite a nose-down landing, Slim fulfils ...

Despite an initial setback where SLIM landed inverted ... with the command center at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The study aligns with the "giant-impact" hypothesis, suggesting ...