Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope
The trajectory of this missions is really cool [0], basically it will use both the earth _and_ the moon to slingshot itself and then approach the moon in a sort of tangential path.As I understand it this means the mission will take quite a bit more time than "usual" but save a lot of power.[0] I'm on mobile, but this looks like a decent representation https://twitter.com/TitaniumSV5/status/1695724234339954779?t...