The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been ...
With NASA again picking up the bill, Intuitive Machines of Houston is going back to the moon. On Thursday, the company will attempt to land a 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft, which it built, on the ...
Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...
A parade of lunar landers - developed by private-sector companies - are headed for the moon, part of a convoy of robotic spacecraft that NASA and its partner agencies hope will pave the way for ...