"Japan's Moon Lander Touches Down but Faces Mission-Ending Power Glitch"

Japan's robotic moon lander, SLIM, successfully touched down on the lunar surface but suffered a power glitch that prevented its solar cells from generating electricity, leaving it expected to exhaust its batteries within hours of touchdown. There is hope that the probe could "wake up" if the spacecraft landed in the wrong orientation, but officials are uncertain. Meanwhile, the Peregrine moon lander, built by Astrobotic, was stranded in Earth's atmosphere after a valve malfunction, and Japan's SLIM lander was built to demonstrate a high-precision landing system and test an innovative lightweight design.