Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
Now, after multiple thruster firings to reach the planned descent orbit, the 6.6-foot ... The solar-powered lander is expected to operate for a full lunar "day," or 14 Earth days.
"Up next, we'll perform a 19-second Descent Orbit Insertion at our ... If all goes well, the solar-powered spacecraft will operate on the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about 14 Earth ...
Controllers rushed to turn off some of the lander's equipment to conserve power while trying to determine ... Intuitive ...
A second commercially-built moon lander ... that we had asked for in terms of power generation, communications, et cetera." The lander braked into orbit Monday, five days after launch from ...
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.
"Flight controllers confirmed that Athena completed lunar orbit insertion with enough ... Athena will begin a breaking maneuver called Powered Descent Initiation (PDI), firing up and throttling ...
Credit: Firefly Aerospace There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit ...
The Powered Descent Initiation (PDI ... and LEXI was checked out in lunar orbit along with LuGRE. The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS), the Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal ...
The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines ...