Athena Lunar Lander stated dead on the moon
In two years a second time, the intuitive machines built and operated the commercial Lunar Lander fell on the moon
Athena Moon Machines went to heaven, and also has blue blue lands, after the probe, on March 6, 2025 at the south pole at the Landing Attack.
It’s a scary picture, but at least it has answers: for many years over many years, a private intuitive Lunar Lander has thrown on the moon.
After a day of uncertainty attempt to land the moonaccompaniment Intuitive machines He sealed the last fate of the Moon probe Athena. The spaceship, next to the south pole of the moonlight, was a historic landing (March 6), he met on his side inside a fried crater.
Photo taken by Athena Lander Moon He showed it as much. He looked to look SoilOn the horizon of the moon, he went to heaven that could not be said among the two legs of South Lander’s inhabitants. With the vegetation he can’t create power, the intuitive machine declared his role.
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“With the direction sunORIENTATION AND CRATSION OF SOGA PANEL ORDERS, intuitive machines do not expect to charge Athenea ” wrote in an update on Friday. “The mission is over and the teams continue to evaluate the data collected during the mission.”
However, the company celebrated the place where Athena did. “This was the landing and surface operations of southern Lunar.”
NASA officials, an extraordinary update indicated by the intuitive machine through Lander about 1,300 meters (about 400 meters) through the landing center. “It is a landing area next to the South Pole of the Moon, the Moon” Science Science Science Administrator said in the statement.
Athena and intuitive machine was an unusual ending of the IM-2 mission, the late landing attempt at Houston based on Houston. His first moon lands IM-1 mission last year It is also one of its own Odysseus probeFour four-legged legs broke faster than expected the surface of the moon.
For IM-2, intuitive machines added additional cameras and other orientation and browsing innovators to Athena, along with some relentless loads. Lander took two small rovers, a Nokia 4G Communication SystemA robot that calls a grace and ice hunting drill for NASA Prime-1 called. The 62.5 million Mission Mission had the second to the NASA intuitive machine agency’s moon commercial service or CLPS, according to the program.
“After landing, mission drivers could accelerate various programs and load-limits, including NASA Prime-1 Suite, before Lander batteries run out,” said “Intuitive machines said.
NASA officials said that Athena Lander’s Orientation “prevented the operation of the drill and other tools completely before his batteries run out,” but first drills “successfully demonstrated the full range of hardware movements in the hard space environment.” The spectrometer shell inserted in the Prime-1 instrument suites also detected some gases that Lander would later send landing.
“While this mission has not achieved all NASA’s goals, it is already reporting agency and commercial efforts.” Because we continue to develop new technologies for the Moon and Mars exploration, SITUR technology test technologies are essential for future missions. “
Athena Lunar after the land, Thursday, Steve Altemus said that Steve Altemus still played a “success” attempt when he reached the moon and worked after a while Booting from the ground Sharex at a rocket. The company said he will take what he learning from IM-2 and will be applied to the IM-3 IM-3 mission in 2026. The company also has a NASA contract of $ 117 million For a fourth flight in 2027.
Intuitive machines and Nasar emphasized the rugged nature of the moon, sunlight and opinion with his strong sun angles, became a new challenge for the moon’s landing. It has also been “live direct live communications” with the ground to add mixtures.
“It was interesting to the space of dark shadows and gray,” Tim Crain, the responsible for technological technology in the intuitive machine, said the Lighting of Krat’s fallen in Athena. So we get next time. “
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