MOSCOW, January 21 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the first soft landing on the Moon of a Japanese spacecraft device, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said.
On September 7, 2023, Japan launched its first lunar module SLIM, which after almost five months of travel landed on the Earth's natural satellite.
“Congratulations to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and everyone at the Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA) for the first soft landing on the Moon. India looks forward to cooperation in space exploration between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and JAXA,” the Indian Prime Minister wrote on social media X.
The Japanese Aerospace Agency previously stated that it considered the soft landing of the SLIM module on the Moon successful, since the device transmitted data to Earth. At the same time, as JAXA noted, the solar panels installed on the module do not generate energy, and the charge of the existing batteries will last for several hours. In 2011, Japanese scientists proposed the concept of a new generation of landing modules with a high-precision landing system using mapping data from the Kaguya (Japan) and LRO (USA) probes. Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), that is, a “smart landing module for exploring the Moon,” is capable of landing on the Moon with an accuracy of meters and even centimeters. For this ability, the Japanese spacecraft was nicknamed the “lunar sniper.”
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