[HN Gopher] Japan's SLIM 'moon sniper' lander arrives in lunar o...
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       Japan's SLIM 'moon sniper' lander arrives in lunar orbit for
       Christmas
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-12-25 18:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.space.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.space.com)
        
       | sbierwagen wrote:
       | It's taken 110 days to get to the moon because they're using a
       | funny minimum-fuel TLI orbit with a bunch of Oberth boosts:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_SLIM_around_...
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-lunar_injection
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       | On the spacecraft photo, you might notice that the landing feet
       | are on the side of the spacecraft, rather than under the engine.
       | That's because it's designed to flop over on landing, with feet
       | made of a 3d printed metal sponge intended on crush on impact!
       | https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/assets/img/movie/SLI...
        
       | bluenose69 wrote:
       | The site [1] provides more detail, including a media kit [2] that
       | is quite informative as to the details of a lot of the setup.
       | 
       | 1. https://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/slim_special_site.html
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       | 2. https://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/slim/SLIM-mediakit-
       | EN_2310....
        
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