US EditionIntuitive Machines lunar lander launch scheduled for Wednesday evening
- Intuitive Machines has scheduled the launch of its lunar lander mission named IM-2, also known as 'Athena,' for February 26 at 7:17 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
- The IM-2 lunar lander will carry NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment payload, called PRIME-1, which includes a drill designed to bore beneath the lunar surface to explore ice resources that could assist future lunar missions.
- Other payloads include a small rover named 'Yaoki' and a data center called 'Freedom,' alongside communications systems and thermal protection technologies.
- If successful, the mission will help NASA assess the presence of water ice at the moon's south pole for future lunar exploration, with Intuitive Machines receiving $62 million for the mission.
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Second Intuitive Machines lunar lander ready for launch
The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is set to launch, taking to the moon NASA and commercial payloads as well as several rideshare spacecraft. The post Second Intuitive Machines lunar lander ready for launch appeared first on SpaceNews.
The Athena lunar lander, part of Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, recently arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is preparing for its upcoming launch on February 26. Among the instruments on board the lander is a compact data center from Lonestar Data Holdings, equipped with an 8 TB solid-state drive and a single FPGA chip from Microchip's PolaFire SoC. Lonestar's main task is to... The post Intuitive Machines' Athena lander arrives at Cape C…
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