Japan's lunar lander still powers away 3 months later. What to know about SLIM mission An image the spacecraft managed to beam back to Earth on Tuesday serves as a vital indication that the device ...

SLIM, which wasn't designed to endure the lunar night and is in an awkward position, remarkably re-established contact with Earth, defying all expectations.

Japan's first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weeks-long lunar night, Japan's space agency said Monday.. JAXA called the signal, received ...

But the lunar night, which is roughly 14.5 Earth days long, saw no sunlight reach the lander at all. Lunar daytime hit the region around Feb. 15, but SLIM's unfavorable landing position meant that ...

The world's first wooden satellite, named LignoSat, developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry, is shown during a press conference at Kyoto University in ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released ' Satellites Watching the Earth, ' which allows you to check the positions and orbits of operational satellites in real time. You can ...

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 -- sent ...

Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and freezing equivalent to two Earth weeks. "Last night, a command was sent to #SLIM and a response received," national space ...

JAXA compact robots pull off world’s first feats on moon mission THE ASAHI SHIMBUN. February 27, 2024 at 07:00 JST. Share; Tweet ... then transmitted them 380,000 kilometers back to Earth.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has awarded Japanese startup ArkEdge Space a contract to study the feasibility of establishing a constellation of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) ...

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 ...