{"id":1233323,"date":"2025-02-23T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1233323"},"modified":"2025-02-23T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:47:03","slug":"intuitive-machines-is-expected-to-launch-its-second-lunar-lander-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1233323","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Machines is expected to launch its second lunar lander this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Intuitive Machines, the company that pulled off the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-odysseus-spacecraft-has-become-the-first-us-spacecraft-to-land-on-the-moon-in-50-years-010041179.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-odysseus-spacecraft-has-become-the-first-us-spacecraft-to-land-on-the-moon-in-50-years-010041179.html\"><ins>first-ever commercial moon landing<\/ins><\/a> this time last year with its Odysseus spacecraft, is gearing up for another shot at touching the lunar surface. Its second flight <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/2025-is-going-to-be-another-big-year-for-commercial-moon-missions-160038622.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/2025-is-going-to-be-another-big-year-for-commercial-moon-missions-160038622.html\"><ins>under NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services<\/ins><\/a> (CLPS) program is <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-intuitive-machines-next-commercial-moon-launch\/\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-intuitive-machines-next-commercial-moon-launch\/\">scheduled<\/a> to take off no earlier than Wednesday February 26, launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company is once again sending one of its Nova-C landers, this one nicknamed Athena. It\u2019s expected to take about a week for Athena to travel to the moon, before it makes a landing attempt around March 6.<\/p>\n<div id=\"b6266ae9991a43c1bace561eb9c59bb9\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To the Moon! On Feb. 26, NASA science and tech are set to launch on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Int_Machines<\/a>\u2019 Nova-C lander, Athena. Watch live coverage of our second lunar mission with Intuitive Machines here on X. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/57Ug6tHsGd\">https:\/\/t.co\/57Ug6tHsGd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MfsBQkh7Xn\">pic.twitter.com\/MfsBQkh7Xn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA (@NASA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/1893059079376884018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Athena is carrying NASA instruments including a drill and mass spectrometer, which will be used to attempt \u201cone of the first on-site demonstrations of resource use on the moon,\u201d according to the space agency. These tools will measure volatiles in the soil at the landing site in the lunar South Pole. The mission also offers Intuitive Machines another chance at landing its spacecraft with all six feet on the ground. Odysseus, though successful in touching down on the surface, <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lander-tipped-over-at-touchdown-but-its-still-kicking-174541034.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lander-tipped-over-at-touchdown-but-its-still-kicking-174541034.html\"><ins>toppled over and ended up lying on its side<\/ins><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/intuitive-machines-is-expected-to-launch-its-second-lunar-lander-this-week-174703197.html?src=rss<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intuitive Machines, the company that pulled off the first-ever commercial moon landing this time last year with its Odysseus spacecraft, is gearing up for another shot at touching the lunar surface. Its second flight under NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1233323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}