This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...
For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...
"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...
The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted ...
Chris Stott, founder of St. Petersburg’s Lonestar Data Holdings, relayed the news to the rest of the team on video call. An ...
Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...
The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...
Private lunar lander Athena fails mission after sideways landing in moon crater, ending $62 million NASA experiment.
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.
The six-legged lander touched down at a site about 100 miles (160 km) from the moon's south pole, but Intuitive Machines ...
Science News: NASA’s Athena lunar lander has stopped functioning after an unsuccessful landing near the Moon’s south pole, where it ended up on its side in a crater. Designed by Intuitive Machines, ...
"Images downlinked from Athena on the lunar surface confirmed that Athena was on her side. After landing, mission controllers ...