The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
LPV is designed to collect and transfer lunar soil without relying on gravity. While the EDS ... 1 suite of two instruments — a drill and a mass spectrometer. The MAPP rover and its associated ...
Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...
California-based asteroid mining company AstroForge shared on Thursday that its Odin spacecraft, which ventured to space a week and a half ago with Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander ...
The latest mission, referred to as IM-2 or PRIME-1, is slated for a moon landing at 11:32 a.m. CT on March 6. Intuitive ...
(Courtesy/Firefly Aerospace) The mission control callouts immediately reported sensors were reading “lunar gravity and it is stable” followed by the declaration of success. “They’re just ...
The main payload on Athena is a drill for NASA that will extract lunar soil to be sniffed by a mass spectrometer for ... spacecraft has a high center of gravity and is more likely to tip over ...