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 ...

But rest assured, the JAXA team will try to communicate with its scrappy moon lander when the sun rises again. "Although SLIM was not designed for the harsh lunar nights," JAXA said on X ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The remarkable photo was snapped by LEV-2, one of the two robots released from the Smart Lander ... Agency (JAXA) to develop the palm-size LEV-2. Along with the image of SLIM, JAXA also released ...

Touch down: an image of the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle-2 shows the craft landed on its nose (Courtesy: JAXA) In February, meanwhile, US firm Intuitive ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Japanese space agency managed to wake its Slim lander after it had gone through a "lunar night". The Jaxa robot had also touched down in an awkward fashion - on its nose.

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 ...

As far as space exploration goes, 2024 was the Year of the Questionable Landing. The Japanese moon lander SLIM (an acronym for “Smart Lander Investigating Moon”) set the tone in January by ...

An image taken by Sora-Q, an accompanying robot, shows Japan's SLIM lander safely landed, but tipped on its nose. On Jan. 19, Japan's Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when ...