JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
India's planned Chandrayaan-4 mission aims to collect lunar ... a heavier lander engine, which Narayanan confirmed. He said work had already begun on that. In the first week of Feb, Jaxa, Japan ...
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.
As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is buzzing with exciting missions, new technologies, and a renewed focus ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ... said ispace executive business director Jumpei Nozaki in an interview. Photo of the Resilience lunar lander integrated with the SpaceX Falcon 9 ...
An illustration of Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander, which will bring scientific instruments to the lunar surface. Source ... a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will ...
The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.