Planned Crash Landing
Credit: ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY/JEREMY BAILEY, STEVE LEE
Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter smashed into the Moon’s surface as planned June 11, concluding a 21-month mission that began with launch on an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on Sept. 14, 2007. The spacecraft crashed at 1.6 km./sec. (3,600 mph.) at an angle of 10 deg. near the Gill...
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