Athena lander dies after toppling near the moon's south pole
A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday landing time of 12:32 p.m., the company has confirmed on its website that its IM-2 Nova-C class lunar lander is on its side — a fate that matches its first lander, IM-1, that toppled upon landing in Feb. 2024.
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
But landing Athena on the moon's south pole is just the first step in its mission. Aboard the lunar lander is a fleet of technology that NASA and other private companies paid to have delivered ...
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...
The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...
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