Japan lands uncrewed spacecraft on the moon, but with complications

A pencil-shaped rocket is shown leaving a platform, with massive clouds of smoke trailing on the ground.

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.

CBC | World News

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