Smart Lander for Investigating Moon

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A half-scale model of SLIM

Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is a lunar lander mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The lunar lander came to the Moon in January 2024. As of January 29, 2024, the lunar lander is still (doing things or) operating.[1]

As a result of the lunar landing, Japan became the 5th country to soft land on the surface of the Moon.[2][3]

History[change | change source]

It was successfully launched on 6 September 2023 at 23:42 UTC (7 September 08:42 Japan Standard Time).

It entered orbit around the Moon on 25 December 2023, and landed on 19 January 2024 at 15:20 UTC.[2][4]

Planning for the mission: By 2017, the lander was planned to be launched in 2021,[5] but this was delayed until 2023.[6]

The expected cost for developing this project is 18 billion yen.[7]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ "Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission". 29 January 2024 – via www.bbc.com.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "15h00-16h00 GMT". Connect the World with Becky Anderson. 19 January 2024. CNN International.
  3. ↑ "Japan counts down to 'Moon Sniper' landing on lunar surface". Al Jazeera. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "Japan counts down to 'Moon Sniper' landing on lunar surface". Al Jazeera. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Hongo, Jun (November 12, 2015). "Japan Plans Unmanned Moon Landing". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  6. ↑ "Missions of Opportunity (MO) in Development – X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)". GSFC. NASA. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "日本初の月面着陸機、今年から開発スタート 「世界に先駆け高精度技術目指す」". The Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). January 1, 2016. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 2016-02-03.


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