JAXA scientists are looking for evidence of material on the moon's surface that may have come from its mantle, a layer near the satellite's core.

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ... first robot to traverse Earth's satellite or any celestial body with ...

Last month, a H-2A rocket successfully placed a spy satellite into its planned orbit, and days later JAXA’s unmanned spacecraft SLIM made the world’s first “pinpoint” moon landing then ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September ... It was injected into a polar orbit 100 km above the moon on October 18, 2007, and ...

The satellite ... constitutes the company’s second moon landing attempt following a 2023 failed mission. Partly funded by the Japanese space agency JAXA, the January mission will see ispace ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.