4 days ago · For Athena, NASA agreed to pay Intuitive Machines $62.5 million for the delivery service to Mons Mouton. The intertwining of business relationships among Athena’s payloads …

Feb 27, 2025 · “Athena joining a historic wave of lunar landers on their way to the Moon is an extraordinary moment,” said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus. “While the most vital part …

5 days ago · Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the moon’s south pole, announced Friday that its Athena lander has …

5 days ago · Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander is 15.3 feet (4.73 meters) tall, which is about as large as a standard giraffe or a double-decker bus. And, if the vehicle were still beholden to …

5 days ago · Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launches toward the moon from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, …

5 days ago · So engineers at Intuitive Machines had checked, and re-checked, the laser-based altimeters on Athena. When the lander got down within about 30 km of the lunar surface, they …

6 days ago · Until that final descent, Athena had performed much more smoothly than the Odysseus lander a year ago, said Dr. Crain of Intuitive Machines. “We were expecting a fully …

5 days ago · Athena is also carrying another spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines — a 77-pound (35-kilogram) "hopper" named Grace, after pioneering mathematician and computer scientist …

Mar 4, 2025 · Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. ... The agency awarded Intuitive Machines the contract to send NASA …

6 days ago · 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 …