SLIM is tasked with testing Japan ... about how the two countries will cooperate on future moon missions. Under the agreement, Japan will design, develop, and operate a pressurized rover for ...

Somehow, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has survived three lunar ... lunar night would mark the end of the lander’s mission, so when night fell less than two weeks after ...

SLIM landed on the moon at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). There was a tense wait for news after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s mission control initially ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

In return, Japan will bring together public and private sector scientists and engineers to deliver a pressurized lunar rover for crewed missions ... SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

Japan's SLIM mission exceeded expectations, while NASA’s Perseverance found evidence of ancient life on Mars. The Europa Clipper launched to investigate subsurface oceans on Jupiter's moon ...

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

(Photo courtesy of Dymon)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese ... which reached the Moon aboard a U.S. lander, will not proceed with its planned lunar exploration, bringing its mission to an end.

While mission control confirmed it had ... after it failed to generate sufficient solar power. Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) suffered a similar fate after landing on its ...