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 ...

ISAS is an arm of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ... were not operating properly. The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface while calculating ...

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has officially ended the SLIM moon mission after failing to reestablish contact with the lander since ... to adapt to the lunar environment and ...

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 ...

This industry-first technology will support JAXA’s lunar exploration initiatives and contribute to the development of critical navigation infrastructure for future missions on the Moon.

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications to supply its lunar positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) simulation solution. The solution will support JAXA’s ...

This industry-first technology will support JAXA’s lunar exploration initiatives and contribute to the development of critical navigation infrastructure for future missions on the Moon. Spirent’s PNT ...