Here's today's press release for JAXA's SLIM lunar landing!

TL;DR:

Pinpoint site identification was crazily successful.

We were lowering into position, detecting boulders like a champ.

THEN ONE OF THE ENGINES DROPPED OFF.

(I kid you not)

(we don't know why yet)

(maybe space pirates)

But we still soft-landed on 1 engine.

(TAKE THAT SPACE PIRATES!)

but on our head.

Strangely, might not be a big deal once the Sun moves round to the other side of the spacecraft.

global.jaxa.jp/press/2024/01/2

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@elizabethtasker i can't find where in the press release it says the engine dropped off. It mentions it lost thrust in one of them. Is there more detail in the Japanese version?

It was said during the press release. I have done the translation for the slides for this, but they're not posted yet. Hopefully later today...

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