into the IM-2 mission lunar lander, named Athena. Athena and the LSCS will voyage to the lunar south pole region in the upcoming IM-2 mission, where Nokia and Intuitive Machines intend to deploy ...

NASA awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines a $2.5 million contract, which the company said it would use to help develop a ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

The Houston company is one of nine — including major names like Blue Origin — that received a contract in January.

The Blue Ghost lander is a modular platform that can ... lunar exploration and could be used in missions to Mars. 4. China’s Tianwen-2 mission will target a near-Earth asteroid to collect ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found evidence of vast underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars, hidden deep beneath the planet’s surface. This revelation comes from seismic data ...

One would be to use a version of the sky crane system that was used to land both the Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity safely on the Martian surface. The other would be to use a heavy lander ...

The Mars Sample Return program ... commercial partners can do. “Option 2 is looking at the possibility of going into commercial capabilities: a heavy lander with existing commercial partners ...

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Under both scenarios, the lander would carry a scaled-down Mars Ascent Vehicle -- a lightweight rocket designed to launch samples into Mars orbit. There, the Earth Return Orbiter, being developed ...

As originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA sample retrieval lander ...