10 hours ago · The Intuitive Machines-2 (IM-2) mission carries Athena, a Nova-C class lunar lander, and is headed for the moon's south pole with a payload of gear intended to drill into the lunar regolith in ...

11 hours ago · Athena, on a mission dubbed IM-2, will later aim to make a daring descent toward the moon’s south pole. The region is considered crucial to the modern lunar space race.

1 day ago · Athena is a part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. This program is a stepping stone to return humans to the moon with the Artemis program. Intuitive Machines said :

4 hours ago · While Athena will make a quick one-week trip to the moon, Lunar Trailblazer will take a more leisurely, fuel-efficient path. If launch occurs on Wednesday, it will take just over four months to ...

1 day ago · Lunar lander Athena is packed and ready to explore the moon: Here’s what on board Here's a look at just five of the tech instruments that will be aboard Intuitive Machines' lander, as well as ...

11 hours ago · Athena, on a mission dubbed IM-2, will later aim to make a daring descent toward the moon’s south pole. The region is considered crucial to the modern lunar space race.

8 hours ago · The Athena lander will get off the ground as early as Wednesday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission launches.

5 days ago · Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26.The mission will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in …

2 days ago · The new lunar lander, Athena, will carry NASA technology on a mission to hunt for water beneath the moon's surface as the space agency prepares to send astronauts back under its Artemis campaign ...

2 days ago · A private space mission will launch to the moon this week, aiming for the southern-most point ever visited on the lunar surface. The Athena spacecraft, made by US-based Intuitive Machines, is due ...