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 ...

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA. SLIM, nicknamed “the Moon Sniper,” started its descent at midnight Saturday, and within 15 minutes it was down ...

Toy maker Tomy Co. and other organizations collaborated with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to develop the palm-size LEV-2. Along with the image of SLIM, JAXA also released photos ...

In January 2024, SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface and provided JAXA with its first experience operating small lunar rovers in the ...

But on the eighth day, it started working, allowing it to successfully reestablish communication with the command center at JAXA on Earth. A black-and-white photo transmitted soon after SLIM was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...