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Japan’s SLIM spacecraft lowers orbit ahead of Friday moon landing attempt (spacenews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Huh, interesting landing profile. I was looking at the artists render thinking "where are the landing legs?" but turns out it belly flops down on one side for touchdown. Neat!

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