and another display showed the probe was in lunar landing mode. The ISAS’s Yasuhiro Kawakatsu was providing technical explanations to media representatives gathered at JAXA’s Sagamihara campus.

JAXA is working on a pressurized rover together ... the project morphed over the years into something that became known as the Lunar Cruiser, taking after the carmaker’s hit Earth-roaming ...

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 ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is developing the vehicle, nicknamed the Lunar Cruiser, with Toyota Motor ... s first manned lunar missions. JAXA said it has not chosen astronauts for ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September 14, 2007. This orbiter had 15 observational instruments, including NHK's Hi-Vision (HDTV ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.

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 ...

TOKYO: Japan's first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong lunar night, Japan's space agency said on Monday. JAXA called the signal, ...