Intuitive Machines Athena Lunar Lander: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch | NASA Kennedy
Intuitive Machines Post-Launch Update: "After liftoff on February 26, Athena established a stable attitude, solar charging, and radio communications contact with our mission operations center in Houston. The lander is in excellent health, sending selfies, and preparing for a series of planned main engine firings to refine her trajectory ahead of lunar orbit insertion, planned on March 3. Intuitive Machines is targeting a lunar landing opportunity on March 6."
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully deployed the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Mission, featuring the Athena Lunar Lander, after launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A in Florida. Liftoff was at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).
http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=im-2
The Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission lunar lander, named Athena, is carrying PRIME-1 and other NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations. Athena’s mission is designed to validate resource prospecting, mobility, and communications infrastructure in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, one of nine potential Artemis III landing sites.
Commanded using Intuitive Machines’ commercial Lunar Data Network, IM-2 will be the Company’s second of four manifested lunar missions as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (“CLPS”) initiative. Through the CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign, NASA is leveraging American companies to send scientific instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon, advancing our understanding of the Moon and planetary processes, while paving the way for future crewed missions.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-services
Capture Date: Feb. 26, 2025
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