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 ...
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...
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 ...
(Reuters) -Two moon landings in less than a week have once again turned the spotlight on space startups as NASA leans on ...
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