Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.
The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...
Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Athena on the IM-2 mission and the Lockheed Martin-built Lunar Trailblazer satellite for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory li ...
Two lunar missions had a rough start in recent days, one utterly scuttled by a tipped lander and another jeopardized by a ...
Lift-off: The lunar lander Athena from Intuitive Machines aim to test the ... two years mapping the distribution of water on the surface of the Moon (courtesy: Lockheed Martin Space for Lunar ...
Credit: Lockheed Martin Space Lunar Trailblazer is designed to orbit ... On Sunday (March 2), the private Blue Ghost lander built by Firefly Aerospace touched down on the moon's Mare Crisium ...
The module is called the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment, aka LuGRE, which landed on the surface of the Moon Sunday aboard ...
Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's ... Another $89 million paid for a lunar satellite built by Lockheed Martin that was launched on the same Falcon 9 rocket as Athena.