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

ISAS is an arm of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). “The probe made a successful soft landing on the moon. It has begun transmitting signals back to Earth and is generally ...

As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is buzzing with exciting missions, new technologies, and a renewed focus ...

At an altitude of 5 km, the lander was in a vertical ... movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said. The spacecraft was testing technology to allow moon missions to land “where we want ...

Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, which will carry NASA ... NASA astronaut Anne McClain and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut ...

The mission consists of the Blue Ghost lunar lander, the Elytra Dark orbital vehicle ... mission specialist JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and mission specialist Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin ...

Ispace's new Hakuto-R mission will be its second try, after it ran out of fuel and crashed on the lunar surface in April 2023. The Resilience lander, a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA ...

JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe successfully landed on the moon in January 2024, making Japan the fifth country to reach earth’s natural satellite. JAXA is currently working to ...

Developed by JAXA, the satellite is crafted from honoki ... Key initiatives include lunar landings through NASA’s CLPS and Japan’s M2/Resilience, which will test new technologies and study ...

NASA is preparing for the launch of the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander ... Developed by JAXA, the satellite is crafted from ...