February 10, 2025
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Athenea, Lander of the U.S. Lunar Trade, is located for spectacular lunar sciences
In collaboration with NASA, the intuitive machine LANDER ATHENA will send a water drill, Pogo-glued Krater probe and other new technologies
An artist makes intuitive machines next to the Moon Surface next to Lander Moon.
Intuitive machines and Nokia Bell Labs
As the USA and Chinese ramps rise Century race on the moon to land humanIn addition, another aspect of the moon exploration has been forgotten, “The competition” is not commercially built and operated missions.
As part of the NASA Commercial Moon Load Services (CLPS) Program, US private companies have had a constant current of innovative robotics on the moon in paired numbers on the moon. And this trend is set to continue later this month, launching the next CLPS mission to the next CLPS, intuitive business machines. Launch of the NASA Kennedy Space Center on a rocket 9 February 26, the IM-2 company shot in redemption after his pre-aitzancement, IM-1, He bent in his touch at the beginning of last year. This time IM-2 Lander, Athena, its landing and ferries will stick strong science and technology experiments to the surrounding area of Mons Mouton, located next to the Lunar South Pole.
NASA and intuitive machine officials confirmed the launch details and a preview of the mission science in the press on 7 February.
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“The Mission IM-2 is especially unique … Niki Werkheiser is the director of Werkheiser’s technological director. These demonstrations are among NASA Prime-1 (Polar resources ice mining experiment 1), which is able to identify and quantify water (ice) “and other Volatile substances in the lunar soil Thank you, thanks to a drill that can reach a meter. “We will find that we can collect these viances using technological profibers, but will be useful for our future astronauts, drinking water, air breathing and create the rocket fuel, the administrator of the NASHY FOX management administrator , during information.
Athena are other technologies in other technologies Micro Nova Hopper And developed by the Moon Surface Communication System (LSC), intuitive machines and Nokia Bell Labs, respectively, at the Point-of-NASA Punta Technology initiative. The nickname of the “Gracie” Grace Pioneer Grace Hopper, Micro Nova Hopper wants to leave Athena after the Lander touch and embark on the series to add the H-20-meter depth to the cold crater. Definitive shade crater about half a mile. There will be a poke for steam signs under the surface.
IM-2 Lander, the intuitive Athena machine, as seen in the company’s lunar production center and the pre-contained in the operations center.
The aim of “Demo (Hopper) is that we can reach extreme environments with other technologies in Rovers,” Trent Martin explained, the main vice president of the intuitive machines in the information. Nokia’s LSC uses the same 4G LTE communication technology as a smartphone, keep all Athena’s loads “online” due to the corresponding goals. “We are configured to manage large number of loads in this role … and from different control centers for world operations, for various cargoes on the mission,” Martin added Martin.
But Athena, however, is helping to follow the previous and ongoing missions. For example, the LRA agency is called a retroferflective array of laser and LRA. He went to the moon, Athena, between NASA, is a satellite of the lunar orbit of the Lunar Trailblazer.
Given the science summary of the mission, the authorities also offered Athens, IM-1 Lander, the same failures that had nickname Odysseus. On landing on February 22, the Odysseus touched 30 degrees Kilberma, breaking one leg and falls by his side.
“After the mission, we crossed what we call” hot cleaning “,” Martin said in the information. “85 things we need to go and 10 of them we had to look at our IM-2 mission (and) We really set all 85”.
The team also made the margin of errors between 10 degrees of the route that intends to start normal operations of Athena. If the route is farther away, Athena’s functionality depends on how the earth is, Martin said. If we are off-off, let’s say something was the last time it happened, and we ended up in our favor, of course, we would not be able to spread the drills, “he admitted. “However, there are still many tools in these systems, as the last time, (when) were able to get a little bit of instruments in Odysseus Lander and we could send it to the ground.”
With Athena, “we are taking new technologies and becoming institutionalized skills, and it is very important,” Werkheiser said in information. Given a large nature of the great nature of the IM-2 mission, technological blip are inevitable parts of the entire scheme, he said. “If we learn what we need to learn (from failures), and we could do it by doing what we are doing now, then it is succeeded for us.”
