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Athena lander doesn’t look like standing upright on moon

By Editorial Board Published March 6, 2025 3 Min Read
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Athena lander doesn’t look like standing upright on moon

A privately constructed spacecraft despatched to the moon doesn’t look like upright on the floor, says the US firm that operates it.

The Intuitive Machines lander, referred to as Athena, appears to have survived the perilous descent in a game-changing mission to seek out water.

It slowed from greater than 4,000mph to the touch down on the Mons Mouton, a ridge simply 100 miles from the lunar south pole.

Final yr, an Intuitive Machines spacecraft toppled over on touchdown after tripping over on a rock.

Though it responded to instructions despatched by mission management, it did not ship again photographs instantly after touchdown, as anticipated.

Shares within the firm tumbled whereas engineers tried to ascertain full communication.

The south pole area is the vacation spot for NASA astronauts because of land on the floor in simply two years’ time.

However Athena’s descent on to a rugged terrain, generally out of communication with listening stations on Earth, underlines the dangers they’ll face.

Picture:
The management room for the lunar touchdown mission. Pic: AP

If Athena is ready to energy up its methods and function usually, it ought to launch the primary privately constructed robotic rover on to the lunar floor.

Because it trundles throughout the terrain, it is going to construct a 3D map and take a look at the primary high-speed cellular communications community on the moon.

The seek for water

However the mission’s principal objective is to seek out water.

Athena has a drill to take samples a metre beneath the floor.

And it’ll launch a small ‘hopper’ that may bounce right into a deep crater that’s completely in shadow, the place there might be ice.

Professor Katherine Pleasure, a planetary geologist on the College of Manchester who’s advising the NASA Artemis mission, mentioned orbiting spacecraft have noticed indicators of water within the craters.

However that must be confirmed on the bottom.

“So there may be quite a lot of ice present.

“It might imply that we may mine these deposits to transform into water to drink, to make oxygen to breathe, and even create rocket gasoline.”

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