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Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ makes successful pinpoint landing, space agency says

Shinichiro Sakai, project manager of the SLIM project team at JAXA, sits in front of a screen projecting an image taken by LEV-2 on the moon, during a news conference on SLIM’s moon landing mission, in Tokyo, Japan, January 25, 2024 [File: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]

Japan was successful in making an unusually precise moon landing just metres from its target, its space agency has announced.

The country on Saturday became the fifth to put a spacecraft on the moon when its so-called “Moon Sniper” lander touched down on the lunar surface.

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