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Japan is one of several countries that weren’t part of the space race of the 1950s and 1960s looking toward the Moon. They’ve now become the 5th country to have landed on its surface.
Japan on Saturday became only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but its "Moon Sniper" spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem.But without the solar cells functioning, JAXA official Hitoshi Kuninaka said the craft -- dubbed the "Moon Sniper" for its precision technology -- would only have power for "several hours".
Japan's innovative "SLIM" moon lander safely touched down, but appeared to be doomed by a post-landing power loss.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is set to undertake a significant lunar landing with its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), a spacecraft launched on September 7, 2023.
Tokyo, Jan 17 (IANS) Japan appears to have become the fifth country to successfully land on the Moon, after Russia, US, China, and India.