Japan launched a rocket Wednesday night, carrying a moon probe that it hopes to land on the lunar surface and would make Japan the fifth country to reach the moon.
The agency hopes that this demonstration will pave the way for a new type of landing in future moon missions and even on other planets.
"In anticipation of future solar system science exploration, we will realize weight reduction for landing on planets with severe resource constraints and mounting higher performance observation equipment," JAXA said. "We humans will achieve a qualitative shift from the traditional landing, where it is easy to land, to landing where we want to land.
India took its place as the fourth country to reach the lunar surface when its spacecraft landed on the moon on Aug. 23, and the, where it is scheduled to remain for two weeks, conducting experiments and gathering data. Russia had attempted to perform a similar mission to India, but its Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the surface of the moon on Aug. 19 after Russia's space agency lost contact. NASA laterMeanwhile, XRISM -- complete with a telescope, an X-ray imager and a spectrometer, which detects electromagnetic radiation -- is described by JAXA as a
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