JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

and another display showed the probe was in lunar landing mode. The ISAS’s Yasuhiro Kawakatsu was providing technical explanations to media representatives gathered at JAXA’s Sagamihara campus.

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