The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is gearing up for the launch of Smart Lander or SLIM for investigating the Moon on August 26 – just three days after the scheduled Chandrayaan-3’s soft landing. According to media reports, the lander is scheduled to launch as a “ride-share” payload with the XRISM mission on an H2A booster from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 00:34:57 UTC (6:04 am IST).
Meanwhile, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), several lunar exploration programs are set to be launched in the next couple of years including Peregrine Mission 1 – NASA CLPS Lunar Lander, IM-1 – NASA CLPS Lunar Lander, Lunar Trailblazer – NASA Lunar Orbiting Small Satellite, Griffin Mission 1 – VIPER – NASA Lunar South Pole Rover, among others.
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