IM-2 mission in the little moon orbit
Intuitive machines
Intuitive machines’ Athena Lander has made it to the moon, but it seems to have fallen. The plants are still working, but it is still clear that it will still be able to fulfill the parts of his mission.
The spacecraft was launched On the boat, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Cape Canaveral, Florida on February 27th. It landed on March 6, but landing was not completely successful and accurate location or orientation on the surface of the moon is not yet clear.
“We don’t think we are in the right attitude on the surface of the moon,” he said again, “said Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus shortly after landing at the press conference. The company’s last attempt is the last attempt to land on the moon: Odysseus spacecraft. The first time is that a private company landed a spaceship on the skin of the lunar, but Was chopped It was for her and could not send a lot of data.
Athena has several scientific tools, but perhaps the most important of them is to explore new soil (Trident) regolit and ice drill, designed by the NASA experiment designed to drill the meter through the meter. It aims to take samples underground and study their content, looking for water ice and other chemical compounds.
“This experiment marks significant milestone, as the first robotic drilling of the Moon’s South Polo region will be the first activity of the first robotic drilling,” said Jacqueline Quinn At the press conference on February 25 in KSC. If Trident still works, “It is important to help the lunar resources to help future exploration,” he said.
As part of the IM-2 mission, Athena brought several Roard to the moon. One of them, after Grace Grace Hopper, nickname, is designed to jump around the surface unlike any Rover, shooting small baskets to jump to 100 meters of air and travel around 200 meters. Grace is the strange moon to explore, Forever shadow craters.
The Atharren operators can send and turn its scientific loads and turn off their scientific loads, and turn them back to the ground. Solar panels also work to load lander electronics. It seems that it is good news, but the team is still working to represent that the tools will be able to meet some of their scientific goals, according to Altemo.
It is part of a broader boost to a greater exploration on the moon, to partly prepare for the planned human missions during the next decade. Firefly aerospace Ghost Lander Blue It just went to the moon on March 2, and is the route of resilience around the Japanese company Ispace.
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