{"id":776583,"date":"2024-02-11T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776583"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:20:09","slug":"transition-to-the-landing-preparation-phase-for-the-smart-lander-for-investigating-moon-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776583","title":{"rendered":"Transition to the landing preparation phase for the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"elem_heading_lv2\">\n<div class=\"elem_center elem_heading_lv2_pad\">\n<p><h2>Transition to the landing preparation phase for the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- \/elem_heading_lv2 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p class=\"right\">Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- \/elem_paragraph --><\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\n    \u2003The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is ready to begin preparations for landing descent, based on operational results since insertion into lunar orbit and future plans. It was therefore decided to move to the landing descent preparation phase on January 10, 2024, and the apolune (the furthest point from the Moon) descent maneuver (*1) was successfully executed and completed on January 14, 2024 at 17:32 JST. The SLIM spacecraft is further confirmed to be inserted into a circular orbit at the planned altitude of approximately 600km.\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- \/elem_paragraph -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\n    \u2003Spacecraft conditions are currently normal.\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- \/elem_paragraph -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\n    \u2003From now, the perilune (the closest lunar point) descent maneuver will be performed, and the perilune point will be lowered to an altitude of 15km on January 19, 2024. SLIM will then begin the landing descent on January 20, 2024 at around 0:00 JST. Lunar landing is scheduled at 0:20 JST.\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- \/elem_paragraph -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p>\n    \u2003A live broadcast during the SLIM landing descent will be broadcast on the JAXA YouTube official channel, \u201cJAXA Channel\u201d on January 19, 2024 from 23:00 JST, just prior to the Moon landing. We encourage you to tune in.\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- \/elem_paragraph -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elem_paragraph\">\n<p id=\"pic_01\">\n    *1 Maneuver: Injection of propellant to control the spacecraft\u2019s position and attitude.\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- \/elem_paragraph -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- \/area_content_main --><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2024\/01\/20240115-1_e.html?rand=771667\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transition to the landing preparation phase for the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency \u2003The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the Smart Lander&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}