Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.
If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.
Texas-based Intuitive Machines is "ready to go" with the launch of its second moon landing mission ... Athena will launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...
transcript Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water.
Known as Athena, this Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander is poised to launch to the moon no earlier than 7:02 p.m. Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. The lander will launch atop a SpaceX ...
Its destination is the moon, where NASA and the company hope the tools and experiments on board will find different forms of water on the lunar satellite. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent up the IM ...
It's a larger, fully reusable version of the rocket that flew humans to the moon, he added, "and it's just really audacious." Why Starship is critical for building on the moon Though the moon isn ...
The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...
The mission, conducted under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, carries sophisticated instruments designed to analyze the moon’s regolith for water ice and other vital ...
The lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. If all goes well, Intuitive Machines 2 (IM-2) would land on the moon around March 6 in area known as Mons Mouton. On its way to the moon ...