[commentary] SLIM landing success! However, is an engine damage?
The robot that it was born from "toy development" that small probe "SLIM" challenged lunar shooting to a first Japanese moon landing.
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Small proof machine "SLIM" aiming at a first Japanese moon landing is going to land at the moon about eight hours more later. The robot which came out of "toy development" of Japan takes an important role to photograph this historic moment on the surface of the moon.
Until small proof machine "SLIM" lands at the moon; about eight hours. The moment of the landing that expectation is sublimed into. A globe-formed robot is going to be released by "SLIM" when I press about 2 meters just before that to the surface of the moon. I photograph "SLIM" where this robot landed at the surface of the moon.
It is this that takes an important role. It is lunar exploration robot = SORA-Q. The system is such that it is transformed from a globe of the size that is about the same as a baseball, and a wheel appears and photographs the figure which it landed at of "SLIM" while moving the surface of the moon in this.
It is a technique of "the toy development" of Japan that it is used for this SORA-Q.
The globe produces a wheel, and the technique of the "heteromorphic robot" "transformer" is used for structure changing a form. In addition, the movement of the smooth joint of the sectional toy gaining popularity in "ZOIDS" series is used for the movement of the wheel to run over the small sand called "the Lego squirrel" in the surface of the moon.
In fact, it was equipped to lunar excursion module of ispace which faced the private first moon landing in this robot, last April, but lunar excursion module failed in a landing and was not able to challenge the exploration in a month.
The person in charge of JAXA is ...
JAXA space exploration innovation hub Daichi Hirano
When though "several months pass (from failure), the regrettable experience continues still lasting and is always when "it is regrettable" when I see the moon. It being very splendid that there is the rechance that can try it in this way. I want you to succeed by all means this time"
Besides, they send the data which ran the surface of the moon to the earth with neighboring photographs, and, as for the robot, these data are going to be made use of for the research and development of manned rover = "car running on the moon" by JAXA.
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