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 ...

the lander unexpectedly woke up and responded to a command sent by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Sunday night (Feb. 25). "Last night, a command was sent to SLIM and a response ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Ispace's new Resilience lander, a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a longer route to the moon to save on fuel, arriving about four to five months from now. This time the ...

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 ...

JAXA called the signal, received late on Sunday night ... to minus 170 degrees Celsius (minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit). The craft, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, made a “pinpoint” ...