After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.
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.
The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...
A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is ...
Intuitive Machines, the Houston ... has since been circling the moon once about every two hours ahead of a planned landing attempt Thursday, according to the company. Meanwhile, a separate ...
The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.