SLIM IS BACK: Upside Down Japanese Moon Lander Recharged Batteries and Resumed Lunar Mission
In a surprising turn of events, the ‘bittwersweet’ triumph by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA has taken a turn for the better, as the SLIM spacecraft has regained power.
The module performed a historical and very precise lunar landing a a little over a week ago, but ran out of electricity because it ‘ended up upside down in the moon surface’, with solar panels facing the wrong direction.
But on late Sunday (28), JAXA finally re-established communication with its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).
The spacecraft touchdown made Japan the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon,
