The smallest lunar lander to date is designed to make a “semi-hard survivable landing” on the moon.
NASA’s upcoming Artemis 1 mission might be flying to the moon, but it won’t be landing there.
One of its payloads will be, however. The OMOTENASHI lunar lander, a CubeSat built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo, will be the only one of the Artemis 1 mission’s ten secondary payloads to conduct a controlled landing on the moon.
The lander’s name stands for “Outstanding MOon exploration Technologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor,” and helps describe the tiny spacecraft’s mission.
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