SLIM, Small Japanese lunar lander |
SLIM, Small Japanese lunar lander |
Mar 22 2022, 09:35 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10182 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
SLIM is a small Japanese lunar lander planned to launch this year.
Here: https://sorabatake.jp/25799/ is an article about it, with some images, describing two small landers which will deploy from it and operate on the surface. In Japanese. Open in something which will offer a translation if required. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 25 2024, 08:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 1-October 06 Member No.: 1206 |
That's an extremely scenic bit of (Lunar) terrain!
Any ideas about why the nozzle broke off? Didn't Akatsuki also break a nozzle (I know, different time/place)? P |
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Jan 25 2024, 03:30 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 8-August 12 Member No.: 6507 |
That's an extremely scenic bit of (Lunar) terrain! Any ideas about why the nozzle broke off? Didn't Akatsuki also break a nozzle (I know, different time/place)? P I did some digging and it may be the same engine (or at least a 2nd/3rd generation of the Akatsuki main engine). Akatsuki did use a 500 N ceramic engine and from the SLIM press kit they mention the same attributes for their main engine. Akatsuki failed due to a stuck fuel side pressurization check valve. No way to know if this was a similar issue (but one thing I know after 37+ years of prop experience is we usually overkill issue issues that occur on previous missions, so most issues are new ones). Sadly the Akatsuki failure put big dampers on development and use of ceramic larger thrust engines and this failure may have the same effect. Lets hope in the current position that SLIM can still produce power when the arrays are illuminated and recover some of their mission. |
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