Waiting for the Sun: Solar Cells Face the Wrong Direction, Japanese Slim Lander ‘Put to Sleep’ on the Moon – Sunshine From the West May Salvage Mission
The Moon is experiencing a rush of visitors, with many countries sending multiple missions in space missions where, sometimes, success and failure can be found locked in a cosmic embrace, waiting for the Sun.
Take the Japanese Lunar lander SLIM, the ‘moon sniper’ with a technology that allowed it, four months after lifting off from the Japanese Tanegashima Space Centre, to touch down closer to its target landing site than any mission has before – a less than 300 feet radius.
A resounding success that put Japan in the exclusive Lunar Space club with the Soviet Union, the US, China and India.
But not everything went according to plan in SLIM’s arrival. He might have rolled during upon landing,
