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Tomorrow, watch Japan's attempt to land their SLIM spacecraft on the moon! The livestream link is below, and the landing will be at approximately 10:20 am ET on Friday, January 19. If they succeed, they will be the fifth country (U.S., Soviet Union, China, India) to accomplish this feat!

youtube.com/watch?v=nvXLt3ET9m

As long as my five year old cooperates, I will do live updates over here!

This is the powered descent trajectory! (Screenshot from the YouTube livestream)

Graph on the right -- white is expected orbit, red is what SLIM is doing. GOing well so far!! Descent has started.

Engines are currently on, soon they'll be turned off.

Velocity looks good. Things are going well.

Trajectory is going very close to the planned model

Second boost. SLIM is descending again

The top left blue indicator is fuel, there is currently around 91 kg and there should be around 10kg left when all is set and done

Everything looks good!!!! About 15km from the moon's surface now

Engine has stopped and the lander is cruising and trying to scan the moon's surface. Around 15km. Third boost phase coming up.

descending again and will stop at 50m up

They’re still checking the status of the spacecraft.

This is excruciating. No confirmation yet.

livestream is over, we have to wait for the press conference now