Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.

Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's ... Another $89 million paid for a lunar satellite built by Lockheed Martin that was launched on the same Falcon 9 rocket as Athena.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Athena on the IM-2 mission and the Lockheed Martin-built Lunar Trailblazer satellite for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory li ...

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its Alpha rocket for the sixth time ever soon, and you can watch the action live.

Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

The rocket also carried Lockheed Martin’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite up into ... The Texas-built Intuitive Machines Athena Lander is expected to touch down on the lunar surface on Thursday.

and the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) infrared multispectral imager. The main purpose of being for the Trailblazer, which was put together by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, is to detect the ...

Lift-off: The lunar lander Athena from Intuitive Machines aim to test the ... two years mapping the distribution of water on the surface of the Moon (courtesy: Lockheed Martin Space for Lunar ...

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin’s space division. The satellite was a secondary payload onboard the rocket, with the primary payload being a lunar lander mission ...

A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Athena ...

NASA Launches Satellite on Mission to Detect Water on the Moon By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where ...