XRISM

XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) is a JAXA-led X-ray space observatory developed in collaboration with NASA and ESA, designed to study galaxy clusters, black hole outflows, and the large-scale structure of the universe through high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy. It is the scientific successor to Hitomi (ASTRO-H), which was lost to a spin-up anomaly in March 2016 just weeks after launch.

SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), nicknamed 'Moon Sniper', aimed to demonstrate pinpoint lunar landing by using image recognition technology combined with SELENE orbital map data to touch down within 100 m of a selected target. SLIM carried the Sora-Q rover (LEV-2), a baseball-sized transformable sphere jointly developed by JAXA and Tomy; a unit of the same design had been lost when ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander crashed on the Moon in April 2023. SLIM successfully soft-landed on 19 January 2024, making Japan the fifth country to achieve a lunar soft landing and recording the world's first confirmed pinpoint lunar landing, touching down within approximately 10 m of its target near Shioli crater in the Sea of Nectar.