Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The rocket also carried Lockheed Martin’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite up into ... The Texas-built Intuitive Machines Athena Lander is expected to touch down on the lunar surface on Thursday.

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 ...

A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Athena ...