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The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lander made a pinpoint Moon landing in January 2024. Its key technologies were a vision-based navigation and autonomous guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C). This paper focuses on autonomous GN&C for the SLIM's pinpoint landing. The onboard GN&C algorithm can correct a large initial state dispersion for a pinpoint Moon landing, in addition to considering thrust pointing constraint and subsurface flight avoidance for its terminal descent. The developed GN&C architecture successfully orchestrated the lander effectively to achieve the soft pinpoint Moon landing.
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