Japan's SLIM Lunar Lander's Operation Mission Ends

TapTechNews August 27th news, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on August 26th that it had ended the operation mission of the Lunar Exploration Intelligent Lander (SLIM) on the lunar surface at 22:40 Japan Standard Time on August 23rd (21:40 Beijing Time).

TapTechNews reported in June this year that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said that its small lunar lander SLIM had tried many times in this week without success and could no longer restore communication with the earth.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency stated that it has been unable to establish communication with SLIM since May. From May to August, the agency had tried to restore communication with SLIM, but all failed. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency judged that it was impossible to restore communication and finally sent a stop operation instruction to SLIM at 22:40 Japan Standard Time on August 23rd.

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