20.04 | 00:47
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA intends in 2018 to send to the moon its first automatic machine with the lander.
The purpose of mission will be to find areas of the Moon, which in the future will be the purpose of the next manned mission.
The project financing will be opened in 2016, when JAXA will collect a commission of experts to develop a lunar program.
Presumably, space SLIM machine will be launched into orbit by the Japanese carrier rocket Epsilon, developed in 2013.
Japanese experts expect to use his experience planting machine Hayabusa asteroid Itokawa to put their lunar module in a specific area with satellite within a few hundred meters.
For information: still the accuracy of such landings was 1 kilometer.
The question of studying the Moon has a serious place in the space program of Japan.
In 2007, the aerospace agency was launched device “Kaguya”, which for eight and a half months in lunar orbit.
During this time, the probe had to do a lot of high-quality images of the lunar surface, which have been used by specialists Google Inc. to create her three-dimensional model available today on the Internet.
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