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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut for a week due to a power supply issue.<\/p>\n

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it re-established contact with the lander Sunday night, indicating that the glitch had been fixed.<\/p>\n

Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said.<\/p>\n

It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the sun.<\/p>\n

With the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) spacecraft, Japan became only the fifth country to achieve a soft touchdown on the moon after the US, the former Soviet Union, China and India.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft ran on battery power for several hours before authorities decided to turn it off to allow for a possible recovery of electricity when the angle of sunlight changed.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Jaxa shared a photograph taken by Slim of a nearby rock that it said resembled a toy poodle.<\/p>\n

The lander will analyse the composition of rocks in its search for clues about the origin of the moon, Jaxa said.<\/p>\n

Slim landed at the edge of an equatorial crater known as Shioli, within 55 m (180 ft) of its target in a crater. Jaxa described it as an “unprecedented pinpoint landing”.<\/p>\n

The landing technology could allow future exploration of hilly moon poles seen as a potential sources of fuel, water and oxygen, the agency said.<\/p>\n

The Slim mission came after several earlier attempts by Japan failed, including one by the start-up iSpace, which saw its lunar lander crash when its onboard computer became confused about its altitude above the Moon.<\/p>\n

Jaxa could not immediately say until when Slim will operate on the moon. It has previously said the lander was not designed to survive a lunar night. A lunar night, which is when the surface of the moon is not exposed to the sun, lasts about 14 days.<\/p>\n

Statistically, it has proven very hard to land on the Moon. Only about half of all attempts have succeeded.<\/p>\n

Prior to Japan, India was the most recent nation to join the elite club of countries that have achieved this. Its Chandrayaan-3’s rover touched down near the lunar south pole in August 2023 – an area on the Moon’s surface that no-one had reached before.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a US spacecraft launched by a private operator ended its lunar mission in flames over the Pacific. In August last year, Russia’s first lunar spacecraft in decades crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control.<\/p>\n

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