SELENE-2 (ˈsɛlɨniː), or the Selenological and Engineering Explorer 2, is a proposed Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese moon lander to be launched sometime before the middle of the decade as a successor to the 2007 Kaguya (SELENE) moon orbiter.

Penetrators

One option JAXA was investigating in 2006, was to integrate a small data relay satellite and penetrators into the mission.

External links

• Manabu Kato, The Current Status of the Japanese Penetrator Mission Lunar-A, ISAS/JAXA, Information about the penetrator tests.