Japanese Lunar Exploration Program (English Wikipedia)

Hoshino, Takeshi; Ohtake, Makiko; Karouji, Yuzuru; Shiraishi, Hiroaki (May 2019). "Current status of a Japanese lunar polar exploration mission". Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.

bbc.com

"Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission". 29 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-31 – via www.bbc.com.

cnn.com

McKirdy, Euan (May 14, 2015). "Japan's space agency aims for the moon in 2018". CNN News. Retrieved 2016-04-26.

dymon.co.jp

"YAOKI - Japanese Lunar Rover". February 15, 2021.
"YAOKI - Japanese Lunar Rover". February 15, 2021.

esa.int

esamultimedia.esa.int

Tatsuaki Hashimoto (May 2006). Robotic Lunar Exploration Scenario (.PDF) (Report). JAXA. Retrieved 2010-05-07.

freepressweb.blog

"Japan's 1st Moon Rover to Touch Down in 2021". October 21, 2019.
"Japan's 1st Moon Rover to Touch Down in 2021". October 21, 2019. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2024.

global.toyota

"JAXA and Toyota Announce "LUNAR CRUISER" As Nickname for Manned Pressurized Rover". global.toyota. August 28, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
CORPORATION, TOYOTA MOTOR (October 12, 2022). "LUNAR CRUISER | Technology | Mobility". Toyota Motor Corporation Official Global Website. Retrieved 2022-10-12.

globalspaceexploration.org

"Global Exploration Roadmap - Supplement August 2020 - Lunar Surface Exploration Scenario Update" (PDF). NASA. August 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

ieee.org

ewh.ieee.org

"Rover Missions and Technology for Lunar or Planetary Surface Exploration" (PDF). JAXA.

indiatimes.com

economictimes.indiatimes.com

"ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: Official". The Economic Times. 2023-11-17. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"India's next Moon shot will be bigger, in pact with Japan". The Times of India. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021. For our next mission — Chandrayaan-3 — which will be accomplished in collaboration with JAXA (Japanese Space Agency), we will invite other countries too to participate with their payloads.

ispace-inc.com

"ispace Announces Mission 2 with Unveiling of Micro Rover Design". ispace. 16 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
"ispace Announces Mission 2 Landing Date Set for June 6, 2025 (JST)". ispace, Inc. 4 March 2025. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
"ispace Updates Timing for Expected Touchdown on the Lunar Surface to 4:17 a.m. JST". ispace. Retrieved 2025-06-05.

jaxa.jp

global.jaxa.jp

"JAXA | Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar orbit insertion". JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Archived from the original on 26 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
"SLIM Project Press Kit" (PDF). JAXA.
"Status of the JAXA CubeSats OMOTENASHI and EQUULEUS onboard Artemis I". JAXA. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
"JAXA | Status of the JAXA CubeSats OMOTENASHI and EQUULEUS onboard NASA Artemis I". JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Retrieved 2022-11-18.

jspec.jaxa.jp

JSPEC's Enterprises Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Lunar Exploration Program Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

isas.jaxa.jp

"OMOTENASHI" (PDF). JAXA. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
"Go To MOON! The World's Smallest Moon Lander: OMOTENASHI" (PDF). JAXA. 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

fanfun.jaxa.jp

"SLIM Project 概要説明資料" (PDF) (in Japanese). JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. 25 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.

jaxa.jp

"SELENE: The largest lunar mission since the Apollo program". Archived from the original on 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2008-04-21.

jpgu.org

Lunar Exploration Project SELENE-3:Internal Structure Study and Sample Return (.PDF) (Report) (in Japanese). JAXA.

jsforum.or.jp

宇宙開発と国益に関する研究会 (PDF) (in Japanese). JAXA. 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

jst.go.jp

jstage.jst.go.jp

Mission Concepts of Unprecedented Zipangu Underworld of the Moon Exploration (UZUME) Project. (PDF). Junichi HARUYAMA, Isao KAWANO, Takashi KUBOTA, etal. J-Stage. 3 July 2015. Accessed: 24 September 2018. Quote: "SELENE-2 was a mission with an intention to send a landing module to the Moon, and a lunar hole was a candidate for the landing site. However, the SELENE-2 mission was officially terminated in March 2015."

moneycontrol.com

"Japan Moon probe survives second lunar night: Space agency". Moneycontrol. 2024-03-28. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
"Japan Moon probe survives second lunar night: Space agency". Moneycontrol. 2024-03-28. Retrieved 2024-03-28.

nasa.gov

"Space Launch System Highlights" (PDF). NASA. May 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
"NASA Outlines Lunar Surface Sustainability Concept". NASA. April 2, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2022.

nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

"NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-25.

nasaspaceflight.com

Davenport, Justin (6 September 2023). "Japanese H-IIA launches X-ray telescope and lunar lander". NASASpaceFlight. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023.

newscientist.com

Crane, Leah. "Japan's SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night". New Scientist. Retrieved 25 April 2024.

nytimes.com

Chang, Kenneth (2023-04-25). "Live Updates: A Japanese Company Attempts the 1st Private Moon Landing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-25.

satellitetoday.com

"Astrobotic, Dymon to Bring Lunar Rover to Moon - Via Satellite -". Via Satellite. October 15, 2019.
"Astrobotic, Dymon to Bring Lunar Rover to Moon - Via Satellite -". Via Satellite. October 15, 2019.

skyrocket.de

space.skyrocket.de

Gunter Dirk Krebs (18 May 2020). "EQUULEUS". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

space.com

"Still alive! Japan's SLIM moon lander survives its 2nd lunar night (photo)". Space.com. March 27, 2024.
published, Tariq Malik (2025-06-03). "What time will Japan's ispace Resilience probe land on the moon on June 5?". Space. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
October 2019, Mike Wall 18 (18 October 2019). "Japan's 1st Moon Rover to Touch Down in 2021". Space.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Pultarova, Tereza (February 21, 2023). "Green comet seen from space by Artemis 1 moon mission cubesat (video)". Space.com. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
Mike Wall (2020-09-01). "Meet 'Lunar Cruiser': Japan's big moon rover for astronauts gets a nickname". Space.com. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
October 2019, Mike Wall 18 (18 October 2019). "Japan's 1st Moon Rover to Touch Down in 2021". Space.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

spaceflightnow.com

Clark, Stephen (12 October 2021). "Adapter structure with 10 CubeSats installed on top of Artemis moon rocket". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
Clark, Stephen (12 October 2021). "Adapter structure with 10 CubeSats installed on top of Artemis moon rocket". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

spacenews.com

Jones, Andrew (2024-01-22). "Japan's moon lander forced to power down but may yet be revived". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
Jones, Andrew (23 October 2024). "India to target moon's south pole with sample return mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 October 2024.

techcrunch.com

Alamalhodaei, Aria (25 April 2023). "Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time". TechCrunch.

the-japan-news.com

Shimbun, The Yomiuri (30 July 2019). "Japan, India to team up in race to discover water on moon". The Japan News. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.

theglobeandmail.com

"Japan becomes the fifth country to reach the moon after spacecraft lands on the lunar surface". The Globe and Mail.

theguardian.com

Sample, Ian (2024-01-19). "Japan's Slim spacecraft lands on moon but struggles to generate power". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-20.

twitter.com

usu.edu

digitalcommons.usu.edu

Ikari, Satoshi; Ozaki, Naoya; Nakajima, Shintaro; Oguri, Kenshiro; Miyoshi, Kota; Campagnola, Stefano; Koizumi, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Yuta; Funase, Ryu (2017). "EQUULEUS: Mission to Earth - Moon Lagrange Point by a 6U Deep Space CubeSat". Small Satellite Conference. Utah State University, Small Satellite Conference. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

web.archive.org

JSPEC's Enterprises Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Lunar Exploration Program Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Davenport, Justin (6 September 2023). "Japanese H-IIA launches X-ray telescope and lunar lander". NASASpaceFlight. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
"SLIM Project 概要説明資料" (PDF) (in Japanese). JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. 25 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
"JAXA | Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar orbit insertion". JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Archived from the original on 26 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
"Japan counts down to 'Moon Sniper' landing on lunar surface". Al Jazeera. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
"SELENE: The largest lunar mission since the Apollo program". Archived from the original on 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
"Space Launch System Highlights" (PDF). NASA. May 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Shimbun, The Yomiuri (30 July 2019). "Japan, India to team up in race to discover water on moon". The Japan News. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
Hoshino, Takeshi; Ohtake, Makiko; Karouji, Yuzuru; Shiraishi, Hiroaki (May 2019). "Current status of a Japanese lunar polar exploration mission". Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
"Japan's 1st Moon Rover to Touch Down in 2021". October 21, 2019. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2024.