Author Topic: SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon)/LEV-1/LEV-2 (Lunar Exploration Vehicle/SORA-Q) - JAXA  (Read 289874 times)

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Hadn't heard of this project before, but there are multiple reports pointing to it winning one of the small satellite project slot and flying on the 4th Epsilon rocket in 2018.

Anyone got better materials on this?
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Offline notsorandom

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Landing in one of the skylights of a lunar lava tube is certainly an audacious thing.  Presumably there would be less sky visible to the lander which brings up two questions. Will the probe receive enough light for solar panels? Also rock tends to be pretty effective in stopping radio waves. Communications, especially without a relay orbiter may be very challenging.

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Agreed - are they putting an RTG on it? Or does this thing have a low expected lifespan and they've just given it enough batteries to last for a short duration/cover the intervals between sun exposure?
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a Japanese presentation

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Official presentation material. (Japanese)
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/071/shiryo/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2015/04/22/1356906_5.pdf

Interestingly, the Solar Power Sail Mission to Jupiter Trojan is selected one of other mission candidate. Good to hear move a step closer to.

Post Hayabusa-2 project
-Small class 1  is selected SLIM.

-Medium class 1 candidate are Solar Power Sail Mission to Jupiter Trojan and SOLAR-C or WISH or Lite Bird.
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Another a bit more recent abstract

http://www.dlr.de/pf/Portaldata/6/Resources/lcpm/abstracts/Abstract_Sakai_S.pdf
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SLIM was proposed for the next ISAS/JAXA small scientific mission using Epsilon rocket, and was
just selected as a finalist in Jan., 2015.

How does that selection process work and what else is in the final round ?
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Launch schedule is slipped to 2020 and rocket is also changed to H-IIA.

SLIM is changing the design now. Considering to change the landing leg to fewer two design (not baselined yet).

http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/2017SLIMpos.pdf

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The landing method looks Kerbal, but if it works, it might be a good method for landing cargo or base modules.

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Is there a link where the Japan Team HAKUTO is being discussed?  I'm not finding the discussion and Wikipedia is reporting that lunar Rover is still scheduled for an ISRO PSLV launch in 1Q2018.
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The rover was going to fly in Indus lander, but that isn't going to happen, funding a schedule issues with Indus team. Moon Express MX1 might be its best chance of getting moon this year.
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Hakuto has arrangements with Astrobotic as well as Team Indus.  Right now (stated last week at the lunar lander workshop at NASA Ames) Indus is still hoping to raise the money and fly later in the year but presumably not as part of GLXP, barring another change in the deadline. 

To get back to SLIM, it is still being worked on for flight in c. 2020, and landing sites were discussed at the same workshop, with a young lava flow near the Marius Hills skylight being a top contender.
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http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004635427

SLIM moved to 2021 (fiscal year), and a landing site in Mare Nectaris is stated.  This one is new to me, and I look forward to learning more about the site.

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That's a good PDF file, and it includes information about the landing site.  Not in Mare Nectaris but on its edge, just south of the big youngish crater Theophilus.  My take on it:  The Nectaris impact excavates some olivine from deep in the crust, and at first it was exposed in massifs of the inner basin ring (equivalent to the Rook Mountains at Orientale).  Later, Theophilus is dug into those massifs and some of the olivine is deposited in its ejecta.  A little fresh crater which is their landing target has made a nice fresh exposure of it for analysis. 

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OK, SLIM and XRISM will be launched together:

"XRISM and SLIM will be launched simultaneously by the H-IIA rocket."

https://sorae.info/030201/2018_08_03_hitommi.html

NASA says that XRISM is launching in January 2022.

https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/unex_mo_intern.html
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