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The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) deployed a rover called LEV-2, co-designed by JAXA and toy manufacturer Tomy, to explore the lunar surface.
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Moon, Japan, Yale, Oxford
Who
JAXA, TOMY, researchers at Yale, Professor Holm Uhlig of the University of Oxford
What
The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) deployed a rover called LEV-2, co-designed by JAXA and toy manufacturer Tomy, to explore the lunar surface.
When
Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:20:01 GMT · 8h 6m ago
Where
Moon, Japan, Yale, Oxford ·
Why
The JAXA and Tomy collaboration was to engineer a compact and lightweight micro-robot for space missions, demonstrating the viability of such robots for surface operations.
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