Smart Lander for Investigating Moon
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.[1] Systems on the lander are known to have (operated or) been working, as late as April 2024.
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As a result of the lunar landing, Japan became the 5th country to soft land on the surface of the Moon.[2][3]
History
changeIt 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- ↑ "Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission". 29 January 2024 – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "15h00-16h00 GMT". Connect the World with Becky Anderson. 19 January 2024. CNN International.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
