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Japan lunar landing: ‘Moon sniper’ mission reaches surface but appears to have failed, space agency...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJapan is in contact with its newly arrived Moon lander, but it appears to be having technical...
Japan's SLIM moon craft short on power after successful lunar landing
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but...
Japan counts down to precision 'moon sniper' landing mission
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it...
Japan praises 'pinpoint' moon landing by its SLIM probe
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's moon lander achieved an unusually precise touchdown within 100 m (328 feet)...
Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWhile Japan's moon-landing error caused its robot to land upside-down (left), Israeli nonprofit...
Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ keeps baffling experts by waking up. It has shared images from its latest...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoJapan’s “Moon Sniper” wasn’t designed for extreme lunar temperature swings. But the spacecraft has...
Japan's upside-down SLIM moon lander wakes up on lunar surface and snaps new photos
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGrey rocks on the dusty surface of the moon. Ten days after making the first moon landing for Japan,...
Japan's SLIM probe regains power more than a week after moon landing
Reuters via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJapan's SLIM spacecraft has regained power, its space agency said on Monday, more than a week after...
Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time, but the mission didn't go exactly...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn illustration of JAXA's SLIM spacecraft on the moon.JAXA Japan successfully landed a spacecraft on...
NASA orbiter spies Japan's struggling SLIM moon lander on lunar surface (photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA small white dot on the surface of the moon. A NASA orbiter caught sight of Japan's SLIM moon...