so yesterday I decided to communicate for a while and then take a break again," JAXA's post continued, appearing to be playfully impersonating the lander. Related: Japan's SLIM moon lander ...

After the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) re-established contact ... Sora-Q - which was ejected from Slim moments before touchdown - showed the lander face-down on the lunar surface.

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 ...

To piece together this story, I spoke to experts from JAXA, NASA, and ISRO. When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM lander made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the Moon on January 19, most news ...

JAPAN: Japan’s SLIM lunar lander, on a mission to investigate the moon’s surface ... The monochromatic image, which the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released on September 21, shows our ...

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.

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 ...

Developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), SLIM is an experimental mission designed to demonstrate precise and accurate lunar landings. advertisement WATCH SLIM LANDER SHOWS CRATERS ...

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 able ...

Japan may yet manage to salvage its Moon lander, the country's space agency Jaxa says - if sunlight hits it in the right place. The Slim spacecraft was turned off just three hours after its historic ...