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 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has transmitted images of the Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) to Earth.… The photograph was taken by part of SLIM's payload ...

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 resumed operations after being shut down for a week ...

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.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ... as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepares for the SLIM probe’s landing procedures to kick off on January 20 around midnight ...

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Japan may yet manage to salvage its Moon lander, the country's space agency Jaxa says - if sunlight hits it in the right place. The Slim spacecraft was turned off just three hours after its ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...