"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." ...
The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.
The lander, called Blue Ghost, launched to orbit on a SpaceX rocket in January ... journey from Earth to the moon. If you could drive a car to the moon at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour ...
Intuitive Machines, the Houston, Texas aerospace company operating the spacecraft, shared the striking imagery after Athena entered lunar orbit on Monday. The six-legged spacecraft, which got off ...
Sunday’s touchdown was a complete success. Intuitive Machines’ newest Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned. The hourlong descent appeared to go well until the final approach ...
That flyby, and another in May, would have allowed Lunar Trailblazer to go into orbit around the moon in July. The spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin and operated by Caltech, would then go into ...
Intuitive Machines just launched its second lander named Athena from Kennedy Space Center last week, and it’s slated for a quick trip to the moon entering orbit later on Sunday with a landing on ...
As a result of these challenges, Lunar Trailblazer has not been able to complete a series of small thruster firings over the last week that would put it on course to enter its planned orbit around ...
The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering lunar orbit. Athena is now all set to make a landing attempt ...