A second ship jerva spaces just landed on the moon – and probably tipped

Intuitive machines have landed a second navid on the moon, only one year after achieving feat for the first time. I am Unfortunately, very much so the first attempt, it seems that the spacecraft of the company can be cleared on his side.

The lunar lander, called athena, touched the surface of the moon at about 12:30 pm and thursday. It is the second space ship to land on the moon this week, after the ghost of the Blue ghost to Aerospace touching on March 2.

Ineuted machines Officer reported in a post-land press conference that athena is in an area of ​​50 meters on MONTON MONS, a mountain to the South Moon. But the company was talking to working for determining where, atino, Athens touch.

CEO Steve Highmus added during the conference that the company does not think of athena is to the “correct attitude” – SpaceFlight Speaks “probably”

Highness otherwise extended the mission, who said very lily from the year’s journey to the moon.

The rest of athena’s mission now stays in the balance. The artifaboral, who climbed the moon sheds a space of falcon 9 Rocket 26th February 26th February the technologies that the heard heard of trying not the test.

One is a passive reproval array, that the intuitive machines hope to use to communicate with other spacecraft or orbiting. It’s a crucial piece of technology for nasa hopes to build a permanent moon base – so so the space agency Assembled intuitive machines a $ 4.8 billion contract the end of the previous year to build the communication system. (Only $ 150 million that is guaranteed.)

Athena has also transported an ice cream experiment, which agency had expected to use if there are enough natural resources on a belief’s day.

Additional charges include a rover called mapp that is supposed to try the cell equipment from nokia, and solid storage-state invoiced as the first “Lunar” data center.