Moon lander digs up major data not collected since Apollo astronauts
LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...
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There's Some Serious Drama on the Moon
Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) suffered a similar fate after landing on its nose in January 2024. And it's not looking great for Athena, either. Earlier this afternoon ...
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Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty
Kenneth Chang An image beamed from the Intuitive Machines Athena lander as it approached the moon on Thursday.Credit ... over because of its height and slim profile, the spacecraft actually ...
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Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar lander reached the moon, but its status is unclear
The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...
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Athena moon mission comes to early end after lander tips over in off-target touchdown in a crater
A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given a low sun angle and the ...
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NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time
On March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost made history, becoming the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface. The groundbreaking lander is wasting no ...
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Live Updates: The Moon Lander Athena’s Fate on the Lunar Surface Is Uncertain
The spacecraft is almost identical to Odysseus, the lander that the company sent to the moon last year ... a Japanese spacecraft called SLIM had also tipped over. Mission controllers at Intuitive ...