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 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 ...

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating ... definitive proof that SLIM had actually landed on the lunar surface.

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 ...

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 ...

When Japan’s SLIM lunar lander made a rather unconventional touch-down on the lunar surface, it had already disgorged two small lunar excursion vehicles from its innards: LEV-1 and LEV-2.