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Japan’s Slim moon lander overcomes power crisis to start scientific operations
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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It's amazing that it landed as softly as it did.
Considering that one of its rocket nozzles fell off during descent.
If what you say is true, this is the second time a Japanese mission has been salvaged after a failure of rocket nozzle. The Kaguya mission to Venus failed to enter Venusian orbit after the main engine nozzle exploded. They managed to enter the orbit during their next pass using the smaller attitude thrusters.
My source for this information is this Scott Manley video. Which quotes the official Japanese report.
Sure. The Japanese seem to have a lot of issues with nozzles.