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.
After that the company will continue its planned 10-day water-hunting and research mission on the lunar south pole. Athena is company's second spacecraft to land on moon Athena, which is on a ...
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Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander successfully entered lunar orbit on Monday (March 3), keeping it on track for a ...
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