Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot. The lander made its attempt to land near Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 miles from the south ...

Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot ... The fourth, Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft, suffered a failure during launch early last year, causing ...

not Lunar Outpost of Golden ... Soon after launch, its Peregrine lander suffered a major malfunction with its propulsion system, and it was not able to get close to the moon.

In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed that Athena had tipped onto its side — the same fate that befell its first lunar lander ... system of its Peregrine spacecraft ...

It was the first of three lunar landers that had been in space ... The first was Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine lander in January 2024, which suffered propulsion issues ...

Since the Blue Ghost also had the iSpace Resilience lander as a rideshare ... than ever before from the lunar surface. Along with the unsuccessful Astrobotic Peregrine and the partially successful ...

The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.