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 ...
Intuitive Machines targets a second Moon landing with innovative payloads including rovers, a drill, and a hopping drone to support future human missions.
Houston-based Intuitive Machines has placed a spacecraft on the Moon–and once again, the landing didn’t go as planned. The ...
Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the ...
For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...
The Athena lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface Thursday, but not where intended, and is no longer in operation.
"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...
Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft successfully landed on ... six-legged lunar lander launched Feb. 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that propelled it into orbit. "We'll just have to do the ...