Part of that downtime fell during the cold of the moon's two-week night, mission officials announced ... the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in English. The electronics were operational ...

Watanabe monitored SLIM’s landing at JAXA’s mission control center. Its arrival on the moon was not enough for him to relax, given that LEV-2 was still tasked with recording and sending photos ...

Despite the setback, JAXA’s mission with the SLIM lander isn’t over yet. And, even if the lander isn’t able to come back online to actually investigate the Moon as designed, it still managed ...

Using info obtained from the spacecraft's survey mission, JAXA has reproduced the moon's geological environment in the Minecraft world. Lunarcraft is set in Theophilus crater, which is located at ...

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a lot of rockets heading there this year, part of an ambitious series of uncrewed ...

Exploring the Moon with M2/Resilience Japan ... BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025.

In the JAXA announcement ... become the first Japanese to land on the moon if they are assigned to NASA's Artemis program, a manned lunar probe mission. Yoneda formerly worked for the Japanese ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft is expected to travel for 45 days before trying to touch down in early ...