ISRO revealed that the boom is equipped with two state-of-the-art, high-accuracy fluxgate magnetometer sensors dedicated to measuring the interplanetary magnetic field.
Japan hopes to make the world s first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Japan s attempt to bring down its lander at a precise location follows the April failure of a Japanese company s spacecraft that apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed the moon's surface at around 12:20 a.m. (1520 GMT Friday) and re-established communication with earth, but its solar panels were not able to generate electricity, possibly because they are angled wrong.