Just over two months later, JAXA confirmed that the lander was still alive and transmitting signals following two bitterly cold lunar nights. And miraculously, SLIM is still kicking. "Last night ...

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 ...

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.

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has officially ended the SLIM moon mission after failing to reestablish contact with the lander since April. As part of the Artemis III mission ...

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 ...