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Intuitive Machines Lander Touches Down on Moon, But Status Unknown


Published on Thursday, March 6th 2025 at 15:02 GMT by CNET   Print publication without navigation

  • Intuitive Machines aimed for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill. The company is still assessing the landing.

The article from CNET discusses the recent lunar landing attempt by Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based company, which aimed to achieve the first US moon landing in over 50 years with their spacecraft, Odysseus. The lander successfully touched down on the moon's surface near the south pole, but initial communications post-landing were unclear, leaving the status of the lander unknown. The mission, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, carried scientific instruments to study the lunar environment, including plume-surface interactions, space weather, and radio astronomy. Despite the successful touchdown, the lack of immediate confirmation on the lander's condition has left the outcome of the mission in suspense.

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