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Join the global race to reach the moon, Japan On Thursday, it launched a rocket carrying a Smart Lander vehicle for investigation moon (SLIM) as well as an X-ray telescope to explore the origins of the universe.
Shortly after the successful launch of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) HII-A rocket carrying two spacecraft from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, Isro posted on the X website: “Congratulations to JAXA on the successful launch of the SLIM lander to the moon”. . Best wishes for another successful lunar attempt by the global space community.
India, which recently became the first country in the world to land its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft Vikram The lander will successfully launch on the Moon’s south pole on August 23 moon missionThe Lunar Pole Exploration Mission (LUPEX), in partnership with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) aims to explore the suitability of the lunar polar region for establishing a lunar base.
“We’ve taken off,” said the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s narrator as the rocket soared into a puff of smoke and then soared over the Pacific Ocean. Thirteen minutes after launch, the rocket placed into Earth orbit a satellite called the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, which will measure the speed and composition of what lies between galaxies.
The SLIM lunar lander successfully separated from the rocket about 45 minutes after launch and continued on its correct trajectory toward the Moon. The SLIM is nicknamed the “Moon Sniper” because it is designed to land within 100 meters of a designated target on the lunar surface. Just like Chandrayaan-3, the SLIM mission, which will cost about $100 million, will take a long, circuitous journey of at least four months to the Moon that requires less propellant fuel, and is expected to reach the Moon by February.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is leading the telescope mission in cooperation with the US Space Agency NASA And the European Space Agency, which contributed to building the telescope.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says that the information (taken from the telescope) helps in studying how celestial bodies are formed, and we hope that it will lead to solving the mystery of how the universe originated. In collaboration with NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will look at the strength of light at different wavelengths, the temperature, shapes and brightness of objects in space.
Japan’s lunar mission comes at a time when the world is once again turning to the challenge of going to the moon. So far, only four countries have succeeded in landing on the moon: the United States, Russia, China and India. In April, Japanese startup ispace failed in its ambitious bid to become the first private company to land on the moon. Then, the Russian Luna-25 lander failed in its mission to land on the moon in August.
Japan has joined the global competition to send humans to the moon, and has also begun recruiting astronaut candidates for the first time in 13 years, demonstrating its ambitions to send a Japanese human to the moon.
Shortly after the successful launch of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) HII-A rocket carrying two spacecraft from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, Isro posted on the X website: “Congratulations to JAXA on the successful launch of the SLIM lander to the moon”. . Best wishes for another successful lunar attempt by the global space community.
India, which recently became the first country in the world to land its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft Vikram The lander will successfully launch on the Moon’s south pole on August 23 moon missionThe Lunar Pole Exploration Mission (LUPEX), in partnership with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) aims to explore the suitability of the lunar polar region for establishing a lunar base.
“We’ve taken off,” said the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s narrator as the rocket soared into a puff of smoke and then soared over the Pacific Ocean. Thirteen minutes after launch, the rocket placed into Earth orbit a satellite called the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, which will measure the speed and composition of what lies between galaxies.
The SLIM lunar lander successfully separated from the rocket about 45 minutes after launch and continued on its correct trajectory toward the Moon. The SLIM is nicknamed the “Moon Sniper” because it is designed to land within 100 meters of a designated target on the lunar surface. Just like Chandrayaan-3, the SLIM mission, which will cost about $100 million, will take a long, circuitous journey of at least four months to the Moon that requires less propellant fuel, and is expected to reach the Moon by February.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is leading the telescope mission in cooperation with the US Space Agency NASA And the European Space Agency, which contributed to building the telescope.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says that the information (taken from the telescope) helps in studying how celestial bodies are formed, and we hope that it will lead to solving the mystery of how the universe originated. In collaboration with NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will look at the strength of light at different wavelengths, the temperature, shapes and brightness of objects in space.
Japan’s lunar mission comes at a time when the world is once again turning to the challenge of going to the moon. So far, only four countries have succeeded in landing on the moon: the United States, Russia, China and India. In April, Japanese startup ispace failed in its ambitious bid to become the first private company to land on the moon. Then, the Russian Luna-25 lander failed in its mission to land on the moon in August.
Japan has joined the global competition to send humans to the moon, and has also begun recruiting astronaut candidates for the first time in 13 years, demonstrating its ambitions to send a Japanese human to the moon.
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