A photo confirms that Athena landed on its side and meets the same fate as Odysseus, which also failed to land correctly on the Moon and ran out of energy.
A week on, and a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has just released first-of-its-kind footage of a lunar ...
Illustration of Blue Ghost flying over the Moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, a new lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace, is just a little over a week away from touchdown. As it sidles up ...
Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover ...
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the failure of the Athena spacecraft mission after the probe fell on its side to the surface of the moon. This is reported on the ...
NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin's Blue Moon cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon as early as this summer.
Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
Credit: NASA / Dave Ryan illustration NASA and the ... robotic lander softly touched down on the moon on March 2. A few hours after that landing, the receiver picked up and tracked signals again ...