1 day ago · Athena’s premature shutdown is reminiscent of Intuitive Machines’ last lunar mission, which put a lander named Odysseus in the same pockmarked south pole region in February 2024.

1 day ago · Athena, a commercially developed lander, touched down on the lunar surface on Thursday at 11:28 am local time in Houston (17:28 UTC). The probe landed within 250 meters of its targeted landing ...

1 day ago · The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers.

1 day ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.. The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines.. Launched last week, the lander named Athena missed its mark by more than 800 feet (250 meters) and ended ...

2 days ago · The 15-foot-tall (4.6-meter-tall) Athena will have joined a lunar lander developed by another Texas-based company — Firefly Aerospace of Austin suburb Cedar Park — on the surface of the moon.

2 days ago · Until that final descent, Athena had performed much more smoothly than the Odysseus lander a year ago, said Dr. Crain of Intuitive Machines. “We were expecting a fully successful landing,” he ...

1 day ago · Intuitive Machines' Athena lander captured this view of the moon during its touchdown on March 6, 2025. (Image credit: NASA TV) It marked an ignominous end for Athena and Intuitive's Machine's IM ...

2 days ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen over.. Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet (4.7 meters) tall — or lying sideways like its first ...

1 day ago · Athena performed flawlessly from launch to lunar orbit and most of the way to the lunar surface. But shortly before touchdown, the lander's autonomous guidance and navigation system began steering ...

1 day ago · Athena, which is on a $62.5 million mission for NASA known as IM-2, launched on Feb. 26. The company said it received images transported from Athena on the lunar surface showing the lander on its ...

2 days ago · Athena, Grace and MAPP will stay in contact with each other using Nokia's Lunar Surface Communication System, a payload on the lander that aims to set up the first-ever 4G/LTE network on the moon.

2 days ago · Athena spacecraft is 2nd lander to reach moon in a week, but location, condition unclear The aerospace company, based in Houston, previously etched its name in the history books in February when ...

1 day ago · The video above is from the previous report: Houston's Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is on the moon's surface but its status is unclear. Launched last week, the lander named Athena missed its ...

2 days ago · Athena is the same type of spacecraft as Odysseus, the Intuitive Machines-built lander that made history in February 2024 by completing a soft landing on the moon — albeit, tipped over in a ...

2 days ago · The Athena lander will deploy a small, commercially built rover to explore the landing site and carry out scientific observations. The rover and hopper will send data back to Athena for relay to ...

2 days ago · The Athena lander entered orbit around the moon on Monday. It has since been circling the moon at an altitude of 62 miles. While the spacecraft is over the far side of the moon, its main engine ...

2 days ago · Athena, a 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft, is almost identical to Odysseus, another lander from Intuitive Machines that touched down on the moon in February 2024. The first commercially operated ...

Feb 26, 2025 · The company’s second lander, named Athena, launched on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on an arcing path to the moon.

3 days ago · Atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Athena lander got off the ground Wednesday, Feb. 26 from the Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of NASA's Apollo moon mission launches.

2 days ago · The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander falling sideways into a crater and shutting down after 12 hours.