March 28 (UPI) --The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday its SLIM moon lander survived a second lunar night. JAXA said the SLIM -- short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon ...

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 ...

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 ...

In January 2024, SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface and provided JAXA with its first experience operating small lunar rovers in the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Despite an initial setback where SLIM landed inverted ... with the command center at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The study aligns with the "giant-impact" hypothesis, suggesting ...