Lunar probe SLIM: Will it become the world's fifth exploration country? - South Korean report

Japan successfully held a wrap-up party for the lunar probe "SLIM" on the 7th. If SLIM succeeds in landing on the moon, Japan will become the world's fifth "moon exploration" following the former Soviet Union, the United States, China, and India.
country. According to Reuters, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a rocket carrying the 2.4m-tall 700kg lunar landing demonstrator ``SLIM'' at 8:42 a.m. that day.
H2A" took off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan as scheduled and successfully held a wrap-up party.
The astronomical observation satellites “XRISM” and SLIM installed in H2A
They were put into each other's orbit about 14 minutes and 47 minutes after the wrap-up party, respectively. It was a plan that came true after being postponed three times from the 26th of last month, which was originally scheduled for the wrap-up party, due to worsening weather conditions.
JAXA Chairman Hiroshi Yamakawa said at a press conference, ``SLIM's biggest goal is not to land anywhere possible, but to make a 'pinpoint landing' (a high-precision landing process) to land at a target location on the lunar surface.
It's about proving it," he said. Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 square meters of the target site on the moon. Until now, lunar probes have only been a few square kilometers away from their target locations.
Although the target often arrived more than a meter away, JAXA is focusing on reducing that margin of error. If other landers land along a predetermined trajectory, SLIM will
The spacecraft will observe the lunar surface through a camera, select a landing site in real time, and then descend. The landing target area of India's lunar probe Chandrayaan-3, which was launched earlier, was 4 square kilometers.
It was a turret. SLIM will land on the 300m diameter SHIOLI crater (a crater centered at 13 degrees south latitude and 25 degrees east longitude), which is the lunar target point until next February.
It is expected that Three to four months after the wrap-up party, it will arrive in lunar orbit, orbit for a month, and then begin its descent to the corresponding point. If this landing is successful, Japan will be the fifth in the world to successfully launch a lunar probe.
become the second nation. After landing, a lunar rover (lunar rover) will investigate the rock composition of the moon. Japan's attempts to land on the moon had failed twice. Last November, NASA's large
The micro-probe OMOTENASHI was sent aboard a rocket (Space Launch System SLS), but the probe failed to land due to a loss of communications. Japan will start in April this year
The lander (HAKUTO-R Mission 1) manufactured by iSpace reached lunar orbit during a wrap-up party, but crashed due to mechanical failure after descending to the lunar surface.