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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Planned
Place: Moon
Operator: JAXA
Date
Start:
Duration: 2-3 weeks in lunar orbit, several days on lunar surface (planned)
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: H-IIA 202
Kind: JAXA
Manufacturer: MELCO
Mass: 590 kg
Launch Site: Tanegashima Space Center
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is a lunar lander being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The lander will demonstrate precision landing technology. By 2017, the lander was planned to be launched in 2021, but this has been subsequently delayed to January 2022 due to delays in SLIM's rideshare mission, XRISM.
Additional Info.
web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon