Japan's Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched ...

This technology will be used on a Japanese mission, Martian Moons Exploration, which will collect samples from Phobos, a moon of Mars ... connected by cables to the lander, measured voltages ...

They ride on the coattails of a gorgeous picture of a total lunar eclipse, which Blue Ghost caught Friday before concluding its mission and going dark. It's unclear when the lander took its ...

Photos of the lunar sunset and glow will ... India and Japan — have achieved a successful landing. A Japanese company's lunar lander shared the SpaceX rocket ride, but took an even longer ...

In a post on social media, Firefly Aerospace referred to the sunset picture as the lander's farewell. "Sunsets hit differently on the Moon!" the company wrote, alongside several photos ...

We will be doing it in association with Japan.” The Chandrayaan ... mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The Chandrayaan-2 mission (2019) achieved a 98% success rate, though the ...

In January 2024, SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, successfully ... the red sun of the Japanese flag. (Originally published in Japanese. Banner photo: A 2023 conceptual drawing ...

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander ...

Photos of the lunar sunset and glow will be released ... India and Japan — have achieved a successful landing. A Japanese company’s lunar lander shared the SpaceX rocket ride, but took an even longer ...

Japanese moon exploration company ispace said its Resilience lander will attempt a lunar touchdown at 4:24 am on June 6 local time (1924 GMT on June 5). Japan has launched LignoSat, the world’s ...

Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its mission. The Blue Ghost lander ... landers from Japan and Israel ...