{"id":61302,"date":"2024-01-20T05:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/19\/japan-becomes-fifth-country-to-put-spacecraft-on-moon-as-lander-reaches-lunar-surface-video"},"modified":"2024-01-20T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:57:51","slug":"japan-becomes-fifth-country-to-put-spacecraft-on-moon-as-lander-reaches-lunar-surface-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61302","title":{"rendered":"Japan becomes fifth country to put spacecraft on moon as lander reaches lunar surface \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon after its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) made a successful landing on Friday. Hitoshi Kuninaka, the head of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, said: \u2018We are also able to confirm that the spacecraft is receiving commands correctly from Earth and responding to them.\u2019 However, Kuninaka said the spacecraft wasn&#8217;t able to generate electricity due to problems with its solar panels<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/jan\/19\/japan-slim-spacecraft-lands-on-moon-but-struggles-to-generate-power\">Japan\u2019s Slim spacecraft lands on moon but struggles to generate power<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2024\/jan\/19\/the-race-for-the-moon-podcast\">The race for the moon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/live\/2024\/jan\/19\/japan-moon-landing-mission-space-latest-live-news-updates\">Japan\u2019s \u2018Moon Sniper\u2019 craft makes lunar landing but is unable to generate electricity via solar power \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/19\/japan-becomes-fifth-country-to-put-spacecraft-on-moon-as-lander-reaches-lunar-surface-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon after its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) made a successful landing on Friday. Hitoshi Kuninaka, the head of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, said: \u2018We are also abl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,297,295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-space","category-the-moon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61303,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61302\/revisions\/61303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}