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,
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Athena Lunar Lander Declared Dead on the MoonFor the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...
Chris Stott, founder of St. Petersburg’s Lonestar Data Holdings, relayed the news to the rest of the team on video call. An ...
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander successfully entered lunar orbit on Monday (March 3), keeping it on track for a ...
A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped ... Thursday morning, while flying over the far side of the moon, Athena's main engine fired, starting a process to lower the far side of its orbit ...
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...
The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...
The latest mission, referred to as IM-2 or PRIME-1, is slated for a moon landing at 11:32 a.m. CT on March 6. Intuitive ...
The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...
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