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.
Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s ...
NASA confirmed on X that Athena, which was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, touched down on the moon at ...
Intuitive Machines ended Athena's mission prematurely after the transportation device fell over shortly after landing near ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft made it to the moon's surface but its status remains undetermined, according to CEO ...
The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.
The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...
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