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Intuitive Machines-2 Lunar Landing – LIVE – 6 March – 16:30

Intuitive Machines-2 Lunar Landing

The first ever commercial rover to explore the surface of the moon is due to land on the lunar surface late on Thursday March 6^th (US time) early Friday March 7^th (GMT).

Watch Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander, Athena, touch down on the Moon. Athena will land at Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moon’s South Pole, delivering NASA science and technology to the Moon’s surface. Landing is slated for no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST (1732 UTC).

The NASA tech aboard the lander will demonstrate resource utilisation on the Moon by measuring the possible presence of volatiles or gases from lunar soil and give future spacecraft a permanent reference point on the lunar surface.

This is Intuitive Machines’ second Moon landing as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

To learn more about CLPS, visit https://go.nasa.gov/3RFR0A5.

NASA is working with several American companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

The joint mission, involving Castrol, innovative space start-up Lunar Outpost and MIT Media Lab lifted off from Cape Canaveral on board SpaceX Falcon 9 on Wednesday February 26^th. After an eight-day journey it will land on the lunar South Pole onboard the IM-2 lunar lander, named Athena.

These companies, ranging in size, bid on delivering payloads for NASA. This includes everything from payload integration and operations, to launching from Earth and landing on the surface of the Moon

Credit: NASA