Image shows JAXA’s SLIM Lunar Probe achieved high-precision Moon landing Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
Japan's SLIM mission attempted a new landing technique, and it went face-first on the Moon. The ambitious mission of Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the SLIM spacecraft already touched down on the Moon, but it did not go the way they expected as it landed face-first in their attempt.
Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.
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