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.

Mission controllers were able to confirm that Athena lunar lander made it to the moon, but they do not know the status of the spacecraft.

Shares of Intuitive Machines slumped to close 22% lower on Friday after the U.S. space exploration company confirmed that its second moon lander, Athena, landed on its side a day ago, similar to its first attempt last year.

Intuitive Machines announced its second mission to the moon has ended after Athena, its lunar lander, fell 'on her side.'

Images downlinked from Athena on the lunar surface confirmed that Athena was on her side. After landing, mission controllers were able to accelerate several program and payload milestones, including NASA’s PRIME-1 suite,

Shares of Intuitive Machines ( LUNR -22.69%) are falling on Monday. The company's stock plunged 23.3% as of 1:20 p.m. ET today and was down as much as 23.7% earlier in the day. The steep decline comes amid broader market weakness, with the S&P 500 down 2% and the Nasdaq Composite down 4%.

The Athena lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface Thursday, but not where intended, and is no longer in operation.

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days

Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon's south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it