Japan is now the 5th country to land on the Moon - the technology used will lend itself to future lunar missions
Briefly

It's Japan's first lunar landing - making it only the fifth country in the world to successfully land on the Moon.
Japan is demonstrating a number of new technologies with the lander. The name, Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, refers to the spacecraft's new precision-landing technology.
Read at Nextgov.com
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