Japan lands uncrewed spacecraft on the moon, but with complications
Japan became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon but the probe was not generating solar power, its space agency said, during a mission to prove a "precision" landing technology and revitalize a space program that has suffered setbacks.
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![TOPSHOT - A H-IIA rocket carrying a small lunar surface probe and other objects lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture on September 7, 2023. Japan launched on September 7 a rocket carrying what it hopes will be its first successful Moon lander, live footage from the country's space agency showed A pencil-shaped rocket is shown leaving a platform, with massive clouds of smoke trailing on the ground.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7089005.1705684295!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1649545966.jpg)
Japan became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon but the probe was not generating solar power, its space agency said, during a mission to prove a "precision" landing technology and revitalize a space program that has suffered setbacks.