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/
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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Monty finds Lunar’s small amount of backups while he’s busy restoring Lunar. In fixing Lunar, he accidentally transfers all the backups into Lunar’s body. Suddenly there’s like five Lunars in OG Lunar’s body. Monty singlehandedly and mistakenly has himself five sons who completely adore him.
They’re all backups that adore Monty and look up to him as their ‘dad’, all saved at random points after October. Some have more fresh trauma that others but there are now four backups active and Monty can’t just deactivate them, since he’d have to kill them now that they’re active backups just to turn them off.
So he puts all his tiny sons into their own bodies, Lunar getting over the whiplash of sharing his own body for the first time and being revived all at once. Lunar, after recovering a little from his new trauma, names his backups.
The backup saved right after October, is named Celeste (nicknamed Cellie). The backups made after the Lord Eclipse arc gets named Crater. The backup made on the new year is named Stardew (nicknamed Dew). And the backup made just after the extraction from Moon gets named Satellite (nicknamed Satie).
Monty loves his five sons and laughs in Eclipse’s shocked face when Eclipse inevitably comes for Monty to gloat about killing Lunar because, surprise Eclipse, you killed the baby and the baby multiplied like you fed a gremlin.
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Can The Sun Rays Be Created By The Gravitational Waves Motions Energies?
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My theory (the hypothesis)
The Sun Is A Phenomenon Created By The Planets Motions
The Sun Is NOT Doing Nuclear Fusion To Produce Its Rays- instead- The Planets Motions Energies Total Is Used To Produce The Sun Rays
The sun is a phenomenon created by the planets motions – the sun is created after all planets creation and motion – the sun is a phenomenon and its life and death depends on a cycle-means- after this sun death another sun will be created for the solar system
(No Planet Moves by the Sun Gravity– Newton is wrong)
The Sun Rays Production Machine Details
The Sun Rays Are Produced By The Gravitational Waves Motion
The Proof
This Is Extraordinary: Gravity Can Create Light, All on Its Own
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This new article tells - the gravitational waves can move by high velocity motion and can produce A Light Beam– means- the light beam can be created by high velocity motion.
I claim the Sun Rays Are produced by this method and the Sun is NOT Doing Nuclear Fusion to produce its rays.
Shortly- The Sun Rays Are Produced By The Gravitational Waves Motion Energy And No Nuclear Fusion Is Used For The Sun Rays Production.
There are relativistic effects in the solar system proves a high velocity motion is found in the solar system- that supports the article discovery- means- because the gravitational waves move by high velocity– this motion causes to create the relativistic effects which effect on the planets data- and this high velocity motion causes to produce the light beam (The Sun Rays)
(I prove the relativistic effects are found in the solar system in POINT NO.5)
Conclusion No.1- The article changes the light beams production machine from (The Sun Nuclear Fusion) into (The Gravitational Waves High Velocity Motion) – that disproves Immediately The Sun Nuclear Fusion Theory
The Gravitational Waves Are Produced By The Planets Motions Energies and NOT by The Sun Gravitational Field- Moreover - The Sun doesn't create a gravitational field- this fact I prove it here by many major proves (Point NO.1)
Conclusion No.2- My theory tells (The Gravitational Waves Are Produced By The Planets Motions Energies And Not By The Sun Gravitational Field)
This theory changes the sun rays source of energy- in place of the sun mass which is used in (the sun nuclear fusion) to produce the sun rays-
The fact is that- the planets motions energies total is used as the source of energy to produce the sun rays-
Means
The Light Beam Production Machine And Source Of Energy Are Changed Prove That The Sun Nuclear Fusion Theory Is A Fake And Wrong Theory.
Shortly
The Sun Is A Phenomenon Created By The Planets Motions- And The Sun Rays Is Created By The Planets Motions Energies Total-
The Sun Rays are produced by the planets motions energies total (The proves discussion) (Point NO.2)
The gravitational waves move by speed of light (300000 km/s) depends on the planets motions (Point NO.3)
The Planets Motions Use Different Rates Of Time (Point NO.4)
Preface (Proved Facts)
The Rate Of Time Use Reason (The Solar System Creation Theory)
The Planet Creation and Motion Description
The Difficulty To Prove The Rate Of Time Use
The Rate Of Time Importance And Creation
The Energy Reflection Effect On The Rates Of Time
(The Energy Reflection is explained and proved in Point No.6)
The Solar System Main Rates Of Time
The Solar System Motion Depends on Mercury Clock
The Time Creation In The Solar System
The Earth Motion Effect On The Planets Motions Rates Of Time
The Rate Of Time Between Mercury And The Earth
The Rate Of Time Between Mercury And The Sun
The Rate Of Time Between The Sun And The Planets
The Rate Of Time Between The Sun And The Earth
Mercury behaves in place of the sun and The Earth in place of the planets
The Rate Of Time Of Saturn
The Rate Of Time Of Mars
The Solar System Motion During 24 Hours Of Mercury Clock
The Rate of time (1=1461)
The Used Rate Of Time For The Sun Rays Production
The Relativistic Effects Proves (Point NO.5)
The Energy reflection Proves (Point NO.6)
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