This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...

"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...

Chris Stott, founder of St. Petersburg’s Lonestar Data Holdings, relayed the news to the rest of the team on video call. An ...

The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted ...

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...

Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to reach the moon’s surface—Athena —has powered off after landing sideways on the lunar south pole. The Houston-based private space exploration ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the Moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet ...

Private lunar lander Athena fails mission after sideways landing in moon crater, ending $62 million NASA experiment.

The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.