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SLIM
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The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), nicknamed the "Moon Sniper", was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric, it was launched on September 6, 2023, aboard an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center, together with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) space telescope. SLIM entered lunar orbit on December 25, 2023, and successfully soft-landed on the Moon on January 19, 2024, making Japan the fifth country to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon, after the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and India.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 6, 2023 at 11:42 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- XRISM & SLIM
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 700 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2023-137D
- NORAD catalog №
- 57803
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 19, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 19, 2024
- Time in service
- 135 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed