The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, nicknamed the Moon Sniper, was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric. It launched on September 6, 2023, aboard an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center together with the XRISM space telescope, entered lunar orbit on December 25, 2023, and soft-landed on the Moon on January 19, 2024, making Japan the fifth country to accomplish a soft landing there. Its primary objective was to demonstrate precision landing, aiming to touch down within 100 metres of a target near Shioli crater using image processing to recognise craters.
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was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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it was launched on September 6, 2023
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operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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was a lunar lander mission operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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