Know It All: Moon landings
Japan recently became the fifth country to land a craft successfully on the Moon. DAVID ADAMS looks at some facts and figures about that and previous landings…
Essay: Japan is now the fifth country to land on the Moon – the technology used will lend itself to future lunar missions
International affairs scholar MARIEL BOROWTIZ, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at Japan’s achievement…
Japan’s SLIM Moon craft short on power after successful lunar landing
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the Moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to prove a “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space program that has suffered setbacks. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Smart Lander for Investigating […]
Japan counts down to precision ‘Moon sniper’ landing mission
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the Moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a boost for a space program that has suffered a wave of setbacks and been eclipsed by rival China. Dubbed the “Moon sniper”, the Japan Aerospace […]