Race to the Moon · United States
Full catalogue name: IM-2 Athena (+ PRIME-1, Grace, MAPP, Yaoki)
IM-2 Athena launched on 27 Feb 2025, 00:16 UTC (26 Feb 2025, 6:16 pm CST). IM-2 Athena is a lander mission in the CLPS programme by Intuitive Machines (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
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Partly. Recorded result: soft landing, tipped over. Touched down more than 400 m from its target near Mons Mouton and lay on its side (about 6 Mar 2025). The mission as a whole is recorded as a partial success.
Firsts: Southernmost landing to date: 84.79°S (LROC); NASA: "closer to the lunar South Pole than any previous lander"
NASA’s release body gives "more than 1,300 feet (400 meters)"; its photo caption says about 820 ft.
IM-2 Athena launched on 27 Feb 2025, 00:16 UTC (26 Feb 2025, 6:16 pm CST).
IM-2 Athena is a lander mission in the CLPS programme by Intuitive Machines (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
Partly. Recorded result: soft landing, tipped over. Touched down more than 400 m from its target near Mons Mouton and lay on its side (about 6 Mar 2025). The mission as a whole is recorded as a partial success.
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