{"id":180980,"date":"2024-01-20T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/japan-makes-history-with-tense-successful-moon-landing"},"modified":"2024-01-20T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T00:23:49","slug":"japan-makes-history-with-tense-successful-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/japan-makes-history-with-tense-successful-moon-landing","title":{"rendered":"Japan makes history with tense, successful moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-makes-history-with-tense-successful-moon-landing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HELSINKI \u2014 Japan\u2019s SLIM \u201cMoon Sniper\u201d spacecraft made a successful lunar landing Friday, making the country just the fifth to robotically land on the moon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvXLt3ET9mE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft began its descent from a 15-kilometer perilune shortly after 10:00 a.m. Eastern, Jan. 19 (1500 UTC), decelerating from a speed of around 1,700 meters per second.<\/p>\n<p>SLIM appeared to have successfully touched down at 10:20 a.m. (1520 UTC), during a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nvXLt3ET9mE\">livestream<\/a> of the event. It was not however immediately clear if the landing was successful, with the livestream ending inconclusively. A wait of more than an hour followed for clarification and confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI \u2014 Japan\u2019s SLIM \u201cMoon Sniper\u201d spacecraft made a successful lunar landing Friday, making the country just the fifth to robotically land on the moon. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft began its descent from a 15-kilometer perilune shortly after 10:00 a.m. Eastern, Jan. 19 (1500 UTC), decelerating from a speed of around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}