Intuitive machines are expected to release their second lunar Lander this week
Intuitive machines, the company that pulled out This time last year, with its spacecraft Odysseus, he was preparing for another shot at touching the moon’s surface. His second flight (CLPS) The program is planned To run out of Wednesday 26 February, launched by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company again sends one of its Landers Nova -C, this nickname Athens. It is expected to take about a week of Athens to travel to the moon before making an attempt to land around March 6th.
To the moon! NASA science and technology are determined on February 26th @Int_machines‘Nova-C Lander, Athens. Watch live coverage on our second lunar mission with intuitive machines here at X. https://t.co/57ug6thsgd pic.twitter.com/mfsbqkh7xn
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Athens carries NASA tools, including training and mass spectrometer, which will be used to attempt “one of the first demonstrations of on -site use of moon resources,” according to the space agency. These tools will measure the volatile in the soil at the landing site in the lunar southern pole. The mission also offers intuitive machines another chance of landing its spacecraft with all six feet on the ground. Odysseus, though successful to touch the surface, S
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