The Athena lander, built by Texas outfit Intuitive Machines, set down at 1730 UTC Thursday in the Mons Mouton region just 160 km (100 miles) from the South Pole of the Moon, after riding a SpaceX ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

A small propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper will be able to explore ... An instrument known as a laser retroreflector array (LRA) on the top deck of the lander will be able to bounce ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

In one example of just how dire supply problems have been with electric propulsion units ... One key supplier of laser terminals for SDA prime contractors, German firm Mynaric, has been undergoing ...

In addition to PRIME-1, the lander is carrying a laser retroreflector ... including its own Micro Nova Hopper, a vehicle designed to hop across the lunar surface using its own propulsion system.

MITRE Corporation is providing the 40 kg M-SEL/Cortez spacecraft, which utilizes an Astro Digital Corvus Micro bus ... a 1N nitrous oxide-based propulsion system. Australia’s Buccaneer Main ...

PRIME-1 and a laser retroreflector ... including the company’s own Micro Nova Hopper, a vehicle designed to hop across the lunar surface using its own propulsion system. Also on board are ...

The IM-2 lunar lander also will carry a laser retroreflector and Intuitive Machines' Micro Nova Hopper vehicle ... moon's surface using the vehicle's propulsion system. The hopping capability ...

IM-2 will then attempt to touch down using a combination of thrusters, a laser system to check its ... is Intuitive Machines’ own Micro Nova Hopper. Nicknamed Grace, this machine—the size ...