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 ...

Here's more about JAXA's lunar mission and how its ... crashed into the moon's surface. But the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) was never intended to survive one lunar night, let ...

The remarkable photo was snapped by LEV-2, one of the two robots released from the Smart Lander for ... with the image of SLIM, JAXA also released photos of the rough lunar surface taken by ...

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 ...

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA. SLIM ... to about 10 km above the lunar surface. At an altitude of 5 km, the lander was in a vertical descent ...

For four days, the Smart Lander for Investigating ... command center at JAXA on Earth. A black-and-white photo transmitted soon after SLIM was reactivated showed the bumpy lunar surface, including ...

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 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 ...