Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Blue Ghost launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15 and entered lunar orbit on Feb. 13. The spacecraft — Firefly's first-ever lunar lander — will touch down on Sunday at 3:34 a.m. EST (0834 ...

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.

showing a top-down view of the surface with the lander’s thrusters visible as well: The image shows the Moon’s surface and a top-down view of the lander’s RCS thrusters (center) with a sun glare on ...

The Athena lander is ... will obscure the view of the sun. Athena is the second spacecraft landed by Intuitive Machines, which first sent a craft dubbed Odysseus to the moon in February 2024 ...

so that is what we want to get Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera view to pinpoint the location,” Altemus said. The orbiter should be able to capture an image of the lander within a couple of days.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander has suffered the same fate ... A NASA laser retroreflector array on the lander's top deck is intended to bounce laser light back to future orbiting or ...