IM-2 Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:33:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png IM-2 Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 IM-2 lunar lander mission ends https://spacenews.com/im-2-lunar-lander-mission-ends/ https://spacenews.com/im-2-lunar-lander-mission-ends/#respond Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:57:30 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=514100 IM-2 landing

Intuitive Machines says its second lunar landing mission is over after concluding the toppled lander cannot generate sufficient power.

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IM-2 lunar lander on its side after touchdown https://spacenews.com/im-2-lunar-lander-touches-down-status-unclear/ https://spacenews.com/im-2-lunar-lander-touches-down-status-unclear/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:30:24 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=514040 IM-2 descent

The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines reached the surface of the moon March 6, but its status after landing was not clear.

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Lunar Trailblazer, Odin spacecraft suffering problems after IM-2 launch https://spacenews.com/lunar-trailblazer-odin-spacecraft-suffering-problems-after-im-2-launch/ https://spacenews.com/lunar-trailblazer-odin-spacecraft-suffering-problems-after-im-2-launch/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:53:51 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513667 Lunar Trailblazer

Two spacecraft, one from a startup and the other built by a major aerospace company, are experiencing problems after their launch as rideshares on a lunar lander mission.

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Falcon 9 launches second Intuitive Machines lunar lander https://spacenews.com/falcon-9-launches-second-intuitive-machines-lunar-lander/ https://spacenews.com/falcon-9-launches-second-intuitive-machines-lunar-lander/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:15:19 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513617 IM-2 liftoff

Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander is on its way to the moon after a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch Feb. 26 that also deployed three rideshare payloads.

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Second Intuitive Machines lunar lander ready for launch https://spacenews.com/second-intuitive-machines-lunar-lander-ready-for-launch/ https://spacenews.com/second-intuitive-machines-lunar-lander-ready-for-launch/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:33:32 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513576 IM-2

The second lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is set to launch, taking to the moon NASA and commercial payloads as well as several rideshare spacecraft.

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Ice-hunting Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 nearly ready for January 2025 launch https://spacenews.com/ice-hunting-lunar-trailblazer-im2-nearly-ready-january-2025-launch/ https://spacenews.com/ice-hunting-lunar-trailblazer-im2-nearly-ready-january-2025-launch/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:35:41 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=505797 Intuitive Machines is preparing IM-2, a Nova-C lunar lander dubbed Athena, for an early January mission to the moon’s south pole. Onboard the lander is NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) experiment designed to search for water ice on the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines

GOLDEN, Colorado — Finding exploitable water ice at the lunar south pole is high on the agenda of NASA’s Artemis program. If reservoirs of water ice exist in lunar cold […]

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