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(1520 GMT Friday), but its solar panels were not able to generate electricity, possibly because they are angled wrong.JAXA prioritised the
land within 100 metres (328 feet) of its target, versus the conventional accuracy of several kilometres, a technology JAXA says will become
it.Japan is increasingly looking to play a bigger role in space, partnering with ally the United States to counter China
program in the next few years.But the Japanese space agency has recently faced multiple setbacks in rocket development, including the launch
failure in March of its new flagship rocket H3 that was meant to match cost-competitiveness against commercial rocket providers like
the moon was announced.SOFT LANDINGOnly four nations - the former Soviet Union, the United States, China and India - and no private company
thrusters, surrounded by solar cells, antennas, radar and cameras
Keeping it lightweight was another objective of the project, as Japan aims to carry out more frequent missions in the future by reducing
cost-reduction effects of it and the lightweight probe manufacturing might open up moonshots to space organisations worldwide, Bleddyn
Bowen, a University of Leicester associate professor specialising in space policy, said ahead of the touchdown.Shock absorbers make contact
collapses forward and stabilizes.On landing, SLIM successfully deployed two mini-probes - a hopping vehicle as big as a microwave oven and a
baseball-sized wheeled rover - that would have taken pictures of the spacecraft and were slowly sending them to the earth, JAXA said
Tech giant Sony Group (6758.T), opens new tab, toymaker Tomy (7867.T), opens new tab and several Japanese universities jointly developed the
