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 late Sunday night, a “miracle” because the probe was not designed to survive the lunar night, when temperatures can fall to minus 170 degrees Celsius …
Japan’s space agency has confirmed its moon-lander successfully achieved its pinpoint landing on the moon on January 19. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) couldn’t confirm the landing precision on the day after the spacecraft’s solar panels failed to produce power. JAXA officials knew the lander had performed a controlled descent because none of its …
Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday. However, space officials said they need more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, achieved its mission priority of making a …
Japan gave the green light for its spacecraft to make a “precision” landing on the Moon on Friday, its bid to become the world’s fifth country to achieve a moonshot and revitalise a space programme that has suffered a wave of recent setbacks. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the Smart Lander for Investigating …