Japan's SLIM lander is alive after a long sleep on the moon. SLIM, short for "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon," responded to a command from Earth after hibernating for nearly a month.

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Japan’s space agency said on Monday its SLIM moon lander has unexpectedly survived a freezing lunar night and re-established communication with the earth, more than a month after the spacecraft ...

Japan lands on Moon but glitch threatens mission American lunar mission destroyed over Pacific Ocean The Slim mission - also nicknamed "Moon Sniper" for its use of precision-landing technologies ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Exactly 89 days after this month’s new moon on Thursday, January 11 a ...

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Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon early Saturday. However, space officials said they need more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...

When Japan’s SLIM lunar lander made a rather unconventional ... which makes it the first Ham radio station on the Moon. LEV-1 receives data from LEV-2, which is transmitted to Earth using ...