Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Launches on Journey to the Moon
The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft ...
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Intuitive Machines lunar lander launched successfully Wednesday evening
Houston-based Intuitive Machines successfully completed the second launch of its lunar lander mission at 7:17 p.m. EST ...
Opinion: Missed shots at the moon are still scores for commercial space companies
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...
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SpaceX Starship Explodes: Disruption, Debris, and Determination
Recent science news highlights the explosion of SpaceX's Starship during a test flight, disrupting 240 flights. Additionally, ...
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.
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IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain
After a shaky Moon landing last year, Intuitive Machines is working to determine if this mission will meet a similar fate.
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while...
Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...