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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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (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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    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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    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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    land on the Moon, and the first to do so near the lunar south pole. On January 19, JAXA successfully landed the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon on...
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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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  • 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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    Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy), also known for its project name VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme), the code name MUSES-B (for the second...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • landers would have been deployed on pre-determined landing sites and perform different measurements: Orbiter — Meteorology Lander A — Surface Lander B...
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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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    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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  • including uses for space tourism, flights to space stations, and flights to the Moon or asteroids. H-IIA H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE) H-II Transfer Vehicle (proposed...
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