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Intuitive Machines' private Athena probe lands near lunar south pole — but it may have tipped over
Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...
Athena spacecraft is 2nd lander to reach moon in a week, but location, condition unclear
The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.
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Watch Intuitive Machines land private Athena probe at the lunar south pole
Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
BBC on MSN25d
Private spacecraft lands on Moon - but may be on its side
A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena lander set to land on moon for historic water-hunting mission
Athena is expected to land on Mons Mouton ... a small robot designed to search the moon for water. But an essential part of Athena is NASA’s PRIME-1 experiment, which includes a drill that ...
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A private spacecraft is about to land on the moon — the second in less than a week
the six-legged craft aims to touch down at a site in the moon’s south polar region, then spend a week looking for the ...
Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar lander reached the moon, but its status is unclear
The IM-2 lander is believed to have reached the moon's south pole region, but its precise position and location are unclear. Its intended landing area was Mons Mouton, an area believed to have water ...
Private Lunar Lander May Have Fallen Over While Touching Down Near the Moon's South Pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...
Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...
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Moon lander from Intuitive Machines touches down, but apparently tips over
A landing leg broke ... in the solar system. The water molecules presumably were delivered over billions of years by comet impacts and interactions between moon dust and the electrically charged ...
Popular Science26d
New evidence for water lurking under the moon’s poles
The landing site was significantly hotter ... “[The aim is] to obtain a comprehensive understanding and distribution of water ice on the moon.” The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products ...
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Moon slopes may hide water ice just below the surface
Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space missions.