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Altimeter problems, lighting challenges caused IM-2 lunar lander to fall on its side
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13.5.2025
SpaceNews · Altimeter problems, lighting challenges caused IM-2 lunar lander to fall on its side
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La sonde LRO de la NASA, en orbite lunaire, a repéré 
Dans l'encadré un agrandissement de la vue
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Here is the ill-fated #Athena lander in the 20 meter lunar crater it ended up in: a new picture from the LRO, https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1409 - see also https://skyweek.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/athena_im_loch.jpg from https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1408 for an earlier side view.
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From the #LPSC 'NASA Night' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4sVQ81DiI a list of the next #CLPS missions: NASA will have more Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS) on #BlueOrigin's HLS test lander. They also reported superb results from #BlueGhost with 6 of the NASA experiments already completed and the remainder being done once the hot noon is over. Not much came out of #Athena, obviously, and they're still trying to make contact with the Lunar Trailblazer - no indication of the hope level ...
It's been a week now since we lost our #VoidPeeg #Athena
. She is so greatly missed 
. #guineapig #guineapigs
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How cool - and tragic - is this?!? The small Japanese rover #Yaoki that travelled to the #Moon on the ill-fated #Athena lander has been busy *inside* its transport box (that it couldn't leave without Athena's help), taking this picture which shows a slice of Moon through a slit and tried out various mechanics: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000021.000075722.html - had it been deployed to the surface it would probably have worked well.
Bye Athens! Going back to Berlin tomorrow. Will miss u. 
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Athena fell over. Another one.
The one that landed safely did so on a slope with only 3 of its 4 legs on
the surface. Why didn't it fall over? Because it's about 2 times wider than it is tall. Athena is (was) about 3 times taller than it is (was) wide.
Which REALLY doesn't bode well for SpaceX's Starship, which is some 7 times taller than its diameter.
A monumentally stupid design for a spaceship intending to land on an unprepared surface.
Other companies said I was daft to land a lander on the moon, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the regolith. So, I built a second one. That feĺl over onto its side. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the regolith, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest Intuitive Machine in Mons Mouton.
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In which NASA tries to find something good from the failed #Athena mission: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-receives-some-data-before-intuitive-machines-ends-lunar-mission/ - and contradicts IM, which has said that they "landed 250 meters from its intended landing site" by stating that IM-2 touched down "more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) from its intended landing site."
NASANASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission - NASAShortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for
MISSION OVER: Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's South Pole #athena #lunarlander #nasa #moon
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#Athena came to rest inside a crater, 250m from its intended target. “With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the #solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, #IntuitiveMachines does not expect Athena to recharge 
”. Issues with Athena’s laser altimeter may have contributed to the bad landing https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-company-says-moon-mission-over-after-landing-sideways-again
The Straits Times · US company says moon mission over after another sideways landingIt comes just days after Texas rival Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost lander on its first attempt. Read more at straitstimes.com.
"A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines. ... 'The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected throughout the mission,' the company said in a statement."
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The mission of #Athena on the Moon is over - the lander batteries are depleted and no recharging is deemed possible, a sad update on https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2 just explained. Here is one of a few pictures that could be returned from the surface, proving that IM-2 had fallen over completely (IM-1 was tilted by 30° only); a few other surface operations were achieved as well. On a site closer to the South Pole than any other mission had dared to venture.
Images downlinked from Athena on the lunar surface confirmed that Athena was on her side. After landing, mission controllers were able to accelerate several program and payload milestones, incl. NASA’s PRIME-1 suite, before lander’s batteries depleted.
Intuitive MachinesIM-2 | Intuitive Machines
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More than five hours after the landing of #Athena still a strong signal in Bochum. At the press conference no new insights into the attitude of the lander but they'll try to get down pictures of the surroundings to figure it out and the LRO will also have a look. In any case a nominal mission is no longer possible: what can be achieved will only become clear once the attitude of the lander is determined; this also applies to the deployment of the various rovers and hoppers.
