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Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" | Its two rovers are operational, and the craft seems intact but is without power until February 1
The SLIM was a joint effort between Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sony, and Doshisha University to design a craft capable of...
The SLIM was a joint effort between Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sony, and Doshisha University to design a craft capable of "super-precise" moon landings. Despite its unusual orientation, the team considers the mission a success, calling it the first Japanese lunar landing and making it the fifth country to deploy equipment on the Moon. Japan had wrecked at least two other landers before the SLIM, showing it's not so easy to hit an object traveling at 2,300 miles per hour, even if it's as big as the Moon.
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