‘Smart Lander for Investigating Moon’ to launch in September: NASA report

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is scheduled to launch no earlier than Wednesday, September 6. SLIM is a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission designed to demonstrate accurate lunar landing techniques by a small explorer, with the objective of acceleration of the study of the Moon and planets using lighter exploration systems. The techniques demonstrated by this…

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