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    Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), dubbed "Moon Sniper", was a lunar lander mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The lander's...
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    south pole at 18:04 IST on 23 August 2023. JAXA launched the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission on 6 September 2023 at 23:42 UTC (7 September...
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    the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, survived 3 lunar nights. The IM-1 lander became the first commercially built lander to land on the Moon in 2024...
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    lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander to...
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    Sora-Q (category Missions to the Moon)
    It was launched to the Moon first on the failed Hakuto-R Mission 1 in 2022, and on 2023 Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission, where it is officially...
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  • Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (category Missions to the Moon)
    navigational equipment derived from JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission. The lander's payload capacity would be 350 kg (770 lb) at...
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    technology for the future lunar exploration", according to the JAXA official website. In 2023, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is a lunar lander mission...
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    IM-3 (category Exploration of the Moon)
    to the Moon Chandrayaan-3 Luna 25 Smart Lander for Investigating Moon "NASA Payloads for (CLPS PRISM) CP-11 – Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lander". NASA...
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    fifth country to successfully land on the surface of the Moon with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander mission. 2019 - Akira Yoshino...
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  • amateur radio operator using a callsign without authorization Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, a Japanese space probe AIDS, often called "slim", especially...
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    Hakuto-R Mission 1 (category Missions to the Moon)
    Mission 1 Lunar Lander Japanese Lunar Exploration Program EQUULEUS Hiten (spacecraft) OMOTENASHI SELENE Smart Lander for Investigating Moon List of missions...
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    UTC. JAXA launched its first lunar surface mission SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) in 2023. It successfully soft landed on 19 January 2024...
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    Mare Nectaris (category Maria on the Moon)
    crater in the lower left is Torricelli. Volcanism on the Moon Smart Lander for Investigating Moon "Mare Nectaris". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International...
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    (97 lb), lander designed to operate for about one week on the surface of Mercury. Shaped as a 0.9 m (2 ft 11 in) diameter disc, it was designed to land at a...
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  • Japanese Lunar Exploration Program (category Missions to the Moon)
    1990. SLIM, short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, is a SPRINT-C (Small scientific satellite Platform for Rapid INvestigation and Test-C) mission...
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  • SELENE-2 (category Missions to the Moon)
    into the mission. Hiten (MUSES-A) Lunar-A SELENE (Kaguya) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) "Lunar Polar Exploration Mission" (PDF). 2017. Archived...
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  • domain. Jones, Andrew (7 June 2017). "China confirms landing site for Chang'e-5 Moon sample return". GB Times. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019...
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    Blue Ghost Mission 1 (category 2025 on the Moon)
    Ghost lunar lander was launched from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket that also carried the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander. It delivered...
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    transfer to Phobos, and land once or twice and gather sand-like regolith particles using a simple pneumatic system. The lander mission aims to retrieve...
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  • the selection of four Japanese instrument development teams for 4 of the 10 Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission instruments. Magnetometer (Juno) Exploration...
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    lander. It landed on the Moon but deployment was not possible as the lander was on its' side and the mission ended due to the landers' inability to recharge...
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    August after technical glitches. JAXA launched SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) lunar lander (carrying two mini rovers) and a space telescope (XRISM)...
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  • meters, and the surface is covered with 318 mirrors for reflecting sunlight and 1436 corner reflectors for reflecting laser beams. The mirrors are 10x10 inches...
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  • feature a lander called the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3, or Argonaut), a Lunar Ascent Element, and a rover. The lander can be configured for different...
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    Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA, formerly named ASTRO-D) was the fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission by JAXA, and the second for which the...
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    Center. Japan's Ministry of the Environment, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) use the data to track gases causing the greenhouse...
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    SMART-1 was a European Space Agency satellite that orbited the Moon. It was launched on 27 September 2003 at 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in...
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    lunar south pole. The mission consisted of a lander and a rover for carrying out scientific experiments. The Moon has also been visited by five spacecraft...
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    returned the SFU from space it was transported to Japan and refurbished for display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. The original...
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    IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus lander)
    IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar...
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