After the USSR, the United States, and more recently China (in 2010) and India (in 2023), did Japan become the fifth power to land on the Moon on Friday?
The question is still unresolved at the time of writing.
The situation is relatively new because everything suggests that the SLIM lander landed gently on the surface of our satellite, Friday at 4:20 p.m. (French time), but Jaxa, the Japanese space agency, is slow to confirm the success of the mission.
It seems that the probe is still in working order according to certain amateur radio astronomers and signals received by the large NASA antennas.
Bernard Foing, executive director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG), sponsored by space agencies around the world, preferred Friday afternoon to see the glass half full: “
they hit the ground at the expected time ( 4:20 p.m. French time), with a controlled speed consistent with what was…
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