Japan becomes fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

Journalists watch a live streaming of the pinpoint moon landing operation by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft at JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus on Jan. 20 in Sagamihara near Tokyo. ...
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Japan's first all-domestic moon mission locks in H3 rocket for ULTRA lander

Japanese lunar transportation company ispace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed a launch services contract on July 29, 2026, booking ispace's ULTRA lunar lander onto Japan's H3 rocket for a 2028 ...
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Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. Exploring the moon’s surface lays crucial ...
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Saturday Citations: JAXA collaboration with toy company TOMY; a new brain-computer interface; IBD solved

This week's notable citations: Astronomers believe collapsing stars could spawn mini universes. Chimpanzees do not like unfairness. And a single dose of psilocybin temporarily restored function in an ...