Japan’s Slim moon lander overcomes power crisis to start scientific operations

Dave, 4 months ago

Here’s the image they posted on twitter, of a nearby rock they named “toy poodle”.

Click meimage of lunar surface, grey and difficult to make out anything

This article has an image from before the shutdown that shows the local area, with “toy poodle” labelled.

rammer, 4 months ago

It’s amazing that it landed as softly as it did.

Considering that one of its rocket nozzles fell off during descent.

tesseract, 4 months ago

If what you say is true, this is the second time a Japanese mission has been salvaged after a failure of rocket nozzle. The Kaguya mission to Venus failed to enter Venusian orbit after the main engine nozzle exploded. They managed to enter the orbit during their next pass using the smaller attitude thrusters.

rammer, 4 months ago

My source for this information is this Scott Manley video. Which quotes the official Japanese report.

tesseract, 4 months ago

Sure. The Japanese seem to have a lot of issues with nozzles.