Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

The Athena Lunar Lander of the intuitive machines died, one day after the moon touched the south pole and drowned. Fortunately, the agency says it was able to “accelerate several programs and pay milestones -to -load” and deploy some tests that were conducting shotgun before escaping at the Athena Lander juice.

The fastest finishing of the Athena Mission identifies for the second time that intuitive machines have just landed on the moon only by the mission that the mission can go along very literally. The company’s Odysseus touched the spacecraft and then advised last February.

The disturbing Athena Mission comes a few months later to help the NASA intuitive machines develop a lunar communication system, which can be worth $ 4.8 billion (though only $ 150 million guaranteed in $ 4.8).

The agency said that the orientation of the solar panels of Athena, the direction of the sun and the extreme cold temperature of where it landed, which means that the spacecraft could not recharge its batteries. “The mission is over and the parties are about to evaluate the data collected throughout the mission,” the company wrote An update Friday

Consistent machines say it was able to deploy NASA Polar Resource Ice Mining Test. This test contains a drill that can enter up to three feet on the surface of the moon. The company did not clarify that the company was able to deploy any other test, but it was carrying a lover with Nokia cellular technology and a stiff-state “Lunar data center“In others.