Date : February 14, 2024
Video Report: Significance of the Successful Moon Landing by SLIM(Dr. Shinichiro Sakai, Project Manager, SLIM Project Team, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
post date : 2024.02.14
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), which was launched in September last year, succeeded at the world’s first high-precision pinpoint landing on January 20, 2024, making Japan the fifth country to land on the moon after the USSR, the US, China, and India. With the cameras loaded on SLIM also having successfully taken pictures of the moon’s surface and transmitted the image data, there are growing hopes for achieving the project’s “extra success” criteria as well.
The FPCJ has invited Dr. Shinichiro Sakai, the project manager for SLIM, to discuss the results of this mission, the Japanese technology that made a pinpoint landing possible, and what new information about the moon could be revealed through SLIM’s observations.
The briefing was attended by journalists from German, Korea, Spain, and US.
■Date: Feb 14 (Wed), 2024, 14:00-15:30
■Theme: Significance of the Successful Moon Landing by SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon)
■Briefer: Dr. Shinichiro Sakai, Project Manager, SLIM Project Team, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
■Language: Japanese, with consecutive English interpretation
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