Offstream
news

---

Changes

1. JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing for a Japanese spacecraft.
   2024-01-19 21:11:25 (First version)
2. The JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft.
   (Current version)

---

Related

JAXA launches the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander from Tanegashima Space Center. The Japanese mission will aim to become the fifth country to perform a soft landing on the Moon.
2023-09-6

JAXA aborts the first launch attempt of the H3 rocket after some of its boosters failed to ignite during the first stage. It is Japan's second failed rocket launch since 2003.
2023-02-17

Japan reports no deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours for the first time since August 2020.
2021-11-7

The U.S.-led Artemis Accords are signed by the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. According to NASA, the Accords aim to establish norms of behavior between countries regarding lunar resource extraction and exploration, outline "safety zones" on the lunar surface where other countries should not interfere, and protect heritage sites on the lunar surface such as the Apollo landing sites. More signatories are expected to be announced in the coming months.
2020-10-13

The Japanese space agency JAXA announces that a pair of 18 cm tall robots successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu.
2018-09-22

The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer "Hayabusa2" from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples.
2014-12-3

Japan renews a territorial claim over Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima-Dokdo), which South Korea also claims to be part of its territory.
2012-04-6

A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster claims that Japan underestimated the potential threat of tsunamis to nuclear power plants.
2011-06-1

A Salvador Dalí exhibition in Atlanta, United States, is to feature items from Canada, Japan and Scotland.
2010-08-5

The first solar sail is unfurled by Japanese space organization JAXA.
2010-06-10