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Commercial moon lander ready for descent to lunar surface
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.
Private Athena moon lander enters lunar orbit ahead of March 6 touchdown try
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander successfully entered lunar orbit on Monday (March 3), keeping it on track for a touchdown attempt on March 6.
Moon lander Athena set for second lunar touchdown with rovers, hopping drone
US company Intuitive Machines will attempt its second Moon landing on Thursday targeting highland terrain near the Moon's south pole. Its landing craft, Athena, is set to deploy three rovers, a
Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Launches on Journey to the Moon
The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Athena Lander, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer to Moon
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena and Lunar Trailblazer to advance lunar water ice exploration and future missions.
Intuitive Machines' Athena Lander Closing in on Lunar Touchdown Site
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex-39A carrying the Nova-C lunar lander Athena as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload initiative from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida,
Moon Race: Three Private Lunar Landers Make History
In a groundbreaking moment for space exploration, three private lunar landers are simultaneously en route to the Moon. The launch of Intuitive Machines' "Athena" aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 27,
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Watch live from the Moon: Second US lunar lander in a week to touchdown Thursday
There is a robotic Moon landing happening Thursday. If this feels like déjà vu, it's because a separate lunar lander successfully touched down there just five days ago.
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander set for touchdown on historic water-hunting mission
The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, could be the second commercial spacecraft to land on the ...
The private Athena moon lander will touch down near the moon's south pole today: Watch it live
Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is scheduled to touch down near the moon's south pole today (March 6). Here's how to watch ...
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Private Athena moon lander beams home amazing video of south pole touchdown site
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown ...
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1st American robotic lunar rover set to land on the moon today
MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET ...
Commercial lunar lander Athena heading to the moon with a drill, rover and rocket-powered "hopper" to search for ice
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...
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See Earth as a Blue Marble in this stunning photo by Japan's private Resilience moon lander
The Japanese company ispace is targeting June 5 for the touchdown of its Resilience moon lander, which launched atop a SpaceX ...
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Sunrise on the moon! Private Blue Ghost lander captures amazing shot after historic lunar touchdown (photo)
Blue Ghost is getting to work after its private moon landing. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has captured a gorgeous ...
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Lego partners with moon rover firm Lunar Outpost for 'future product and surprises'
On Jan. 15, a commercial lunar lander launched from Earth carrying the United States' first robotic rover designed to explore ...