Athena lander dies after toppling near the moon's south pole
A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday landing time of 12:32 p.m., the company has confirmed on its website that its IM-2 Nova-C class lunar lander is on its side — a fate that matches its first lander, IM-1, that toppled upon landing in Feb. 2024.
But landing Athena on the moon's south pole is just the first step in its mission. Aboard the lunar lander is a fleet of technology that NASA and other private companies paid to have delivered ...
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Private Intuitive Machines moon lander declared dead after falling on its side in crater at the lunar south poleAfter a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers.
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.
The arrivals of two lunar landers on the moon this week bodes well for a Hawaii island nonprofit company’s plan to set up a ...
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'We're disappointed in the outcome': NASA shares photo of sideways Intuitive Machines moon lander, which died 12 hours after touchdownThe second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...
The Intuitive Machines Athena lander mission to the moon has officially been declared "dead" after landing on its side ...
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