Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US ...

A US company's spaceship touched down on the Moon on Thursday, but its condition — including whether it landed upright — ...

Athena’s software includes a map of craters within the ... and collect temperature readings for the MAPP rover, evaluating whether its thermal systems are functioning correctly.

During about 10 days of operations, those scientific instruments will do everything from hunting for water beneath the surface to testing high-speed, long-range communications systems. NASA and ...

In the foreground is the MAPP rover, outfitted with a Nokia-built cellular communications system. Credit ... hr), MAPP and its hosted payloads will map the local terrain, capturing stereo imagery ...

or MAPP, and built by Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost. The four-wheel, 22-pound (10-kilogram) vehicle will test new cellular communications equipment, work to create a 3D map of the moon’s ...

The mission is designed to test an array of advanced technologies that could support future crewed lunar missions — including an ice-drilling system ... exploration. MAPP, the largest of ...

MAPP has a communications device from Nokia to test 4G/LTE technology on the moon, and it will also take pictures of the IM-2 lander and the surface, creating a 3D map of the surrounding location.

"Spaceflight is hard - landing on the Moon is extremely difficult," Trent Martin, Intuitive Machines' senior vice president for space systems ... hr), MAPP and its hosted payloads will map ...