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printabledesignrf · 20 days

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thepastisalreadywritten · 8 months

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TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft on Thursday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).

Unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week last month.

Dubbed the "moon sniper," Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface.

The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

"The big objective of SLIM is to prove the high-accuracy landing ... to achieve 'landing where we want' on the lunar surface, rather than 'landing where we can'," JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa told a news conference.

The launch comes two weeks after India became the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the unexplored lunar south pole.

Around the same time, Russia's Luna-25 lander crashed while approaching the moon.

Two earlier lunar landing attempts by Japan failed in the last year.

JAXA lost contact with the OMOTENASHI lander and scrubbed an attempted landing in November.

The Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander, made by Japanese startup ispace (9348.T), crashed in April as it attempted to descend to the lunar surface.

SLIM is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to Mare Nectaris, a lunar sea that, viewed from Earth, appears as a dark spot.

Its primary goal is to test advanced optical and image processing technology.

After landing, the craft aims to analyse the composition of olivine rocks near the sites in search of clues about the origin of the moon. No lunar rover is loaded on SLIM.

Thursday's H-IIA rocket also carried the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.

The satellite aims to observe plasma winds flowing through the universe that scientists see as key to helping understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) manufactured the rocket and operated the launch, which marked the 47th H-IIA rocket Japan has launched since 2001, bringing the vehicle's success rate close to 98%.

JAXA had suspended the launch of H-IIA carrying SLIM for several months while it investigated the failure of its new medium-lift H3 rocket during its debut in March.

Japan's space missions have faced other recent setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test in July.

The country aims to send an astronaut to the moon's surface in the latter half of the 2020s as part of NASA's Artemis programme.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-slim-after-three-delays-2023-09-06/

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Japan launches 'Moon Sniper' mission | AFP

7 September 2023

Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.

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cruentaquevivere · 1 year

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SpaceX’s Starship exploded shortly after launching around 8:30am CDT on 4/20/2023.

SpaceX is allergic to the words “failure” and “explosion”

#SpaceX’s lawyers obviously prepared him to avoid the words fail and explosion #but that doesn’t make the word choice less funny #spacex #starship #fuck elon musk #fuck elongated muskrat #space rocket #rocket science #rocket #explosion #launch

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rancid-references · 10 months

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#science fiction #sci-fi #scifi #spaceship #battleship #space rocket #space combat #hard sci fi #NASA

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rocketshipheroes · 6 months

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Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle

#space rocket #space travel #space war

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evelynstarshine · 10 months

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#space news #enviromentalism news #landspace #space #space rocket #methane fuelled rocket #did i do the destial news meme right?

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luupetitek · 2 years

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If I've ever think again that drawing a space rocket interior is a good idea, please someone stop me 😩 oh how I hate drawing chairs

#pain #sketch #wip #space rocket

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lidrauniverse · 2 years

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jeandejard3n · 28 days

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First Man: Neil Armstrong

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yourcoffeeguru · 3 months

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FLORIDA USA Collectable Cloth Woven Patch || SWtradepost - ebay

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justsweethoney · 5 months

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#gift idea #collectible #ebay #set 6 glass holders #Melchior PODSTAKANNIK #Space rocket #KOLCHUGINO USSR 1960 #Tea glass Cup holders

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shironezuninja · 1 year

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I reached my Image Save Limit on Pinterest. I need to find another hobby to do.

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thepastisalreadywritten · 8 months

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💯 real video of the @SpaceX Inspiration4 launch is made of multiple telescope tracking shots, created by the talented MARS Scientific group — perfectly showcasing what a #Falcon9 rocket launch looks like after sunset.

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The flight, dubbed "Inspiration4," was a privately chartered spaceflight by billionaire Jared Isaacman, which launched on 15 September 2021.

It became the first crewed orbital mission with no professional astronauts on board.

Aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Resilience, Isaacman — a self-described space geek who has accrued more than 6,000 hours piloting various aircraft — was the commander of the flight.

Joining him were physician assistant Hayley Arcenaux, data engineer Chris Sembroski, and geoscientist and science communication specialist Sian Proctor. Resilience and its four occupants circled Earth for three days, splashing down off the Florida coast on September 18.

The primary purposes of Inspiration4, according to the mission's official website, were to raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and to begin "a new era for human spaceflight and exploration."

https://www.space.com/inspiration4-spacex.html#section-how-was-the-crew-chosen-for-inspiration4

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dovelywind · 1 year

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ꕥ| Peter Quill, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax, Nebula, Mantis, Kraglin, & Cosmo — GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

“…me and my friends are going to go flying together into the forever and beautiful sky…”

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theallseer97 · 1 year

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#alien #aliens #space #space art #universe #outer space #rocket ship #space rocket #color #colouring #coloring #colour #scifi art #scifi

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rocketshipheroes · 7 months

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LightSail 2: A solar sail spacecraft could reach Mars in only 26 days

#space rocket #solarpunk #space #space travel #solar sail

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