Intuitive Machines designed and will operate the Athena lunar lander on the company's second voyage to the moon's south pole to hunt for water.

The U.S. space agency, the primary customer on the mission, is paying for the delivery of a number of scientific instruments that will hunt for water under the lunar surface. ...

Other objectives including testing a a Nokia LTE 4G communications system and deploying a propulsive drone capable of hopping across the lunar surface. Additionally, an instrument known as a Laser ...

Athena carries two rovers and a hopping propulsive drone to the moon. It’s the third commercial lander to launch this year on a lunar trajectory. In January, a SpaceX rocket launched moon ...

It offers Nova-C lunar lander combines flight-proven with a scalable design to meet the demands of the emerging lunar economy; Micro-Nova develops propulsive drone that is designed to land ...

Unlike the human mathematician, however, Grace is a propulsive drone that’s designed to hop across the Moon’s surface. The Micro-Nova hopper will perform a total of five hops, each with a ...

Several of the IM-2 mission’s technologies are searching for signs of water, including a NASA drill and Intuitive Machines’ propulsive drone that is expected to hop into a crater. The Athena ...

Other technology instruments on this delivery will demonstrate a robust surface communications system and deploy a propulsive drone mobility solution. Launching as a rideshare alongside the IM-2 ...