Japan has established communication with the lunar module SLIM – Kommersant
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has restored communications with Japan’s first lunar module, SLIM. It resumed operations for the first time since landing on January 20.
“Last night, communication with SLIM was successfully established and operations resumed! Scientific observations began immediately,” says a publication on the SLIM page on the X social network.
After communication was established, photography was carried out using a special spectroscopic camera. JAXA has published images of the lunar surface.
The Japanese SLIM module was launched on September 7 by the H-IIA MHI launch vehicle along with the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) telescope from the Tanegashima Satellite Launch Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. SLIM landed on the Moon on January 20. When landing the module overturned due to engine failure. The solar panel was not receiving energy for the battery.
Japan became the fifth country in the world after the USSR, USA, China and India to land its module on the surface of the Moon.
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