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The Nova-C lander was designed to be compatible with methane and oxygen fuel sources that are believed to be available on both the Moon and on Mars. For future missions, methane and oxygen could potentially be "harvested" wherever the Nova-C lander may be based using In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) (off-world resource processing technologies).
Intuitive Machines and SpaceX plan to launch the Nova-C lander named Athena from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Feb. 26. The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...
IM-2 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried in late February 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander. [3] [4] The company named this lander Athena. [5]
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, launched into space on Feb. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The 14-foot-tall lander then spent six days cruising more than 620,000 miles ...
Nova-C lunar lander drifts away from Falcon 9's second stage after deployment in orbit. After separation from the launch vehicle, the Nova Control operations center established communication with the lander and conducted initial checkouts. Images captured by the spacecraft after separation from the launch vehicle were released on February 17. [46]
The company's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk' SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape ...
IM-2 is scheduled to launch along with a small-scale, low-budget lunar orbiter called the Lunar Trailblazer. ... The target for the Nova-C lander is a ridge near the Shackleton Crater on the lunar ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.