2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science
SLIM
Demonstrated a precision lunar landing.
Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2024
- Lead / partner
- Japan
- Target
- Moon
- Category
- Lunar lander
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- H-IIA 202
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
SLIM flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of Japan's work toward moon. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Demonstrated a precision lunar landing.
Results
Demonstrated a precision lunar landing.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Hms1103, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · license: cc-by-sa-4.0 (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
