Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and ...

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.

Why have a Land Cruiser when you could have a Lunar Cruiser. NASA’s return to ... of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) pressurized vehicle, but no sooner that 2032.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September 14, 2007. This orbiter had 15 observational instruments, including NHK's Hi-Vision (HDTV ...

Along with the image of SLIM, JAXA also released photos of the rough lunar surface taken by the probe using its multi-band spectral camera. Although SLIM is currently inactive due to a solar panel ...