A SpaceX rocket was launched Thursday carrying Nova-C Moon Lander from intuitive machines. (Credit: Reuters / NASA)
Texas -based intuitive machines is “ready to leave” with the launch of its second Moon landing mission, which should take off on Wednesday.
Reuters reported that a business manager confirmed that the space exploration company was “ready to leave”, with the planned launch of its Lander Moon Nova-C with six-legged, Athena on Wednesday.
Athena will be launched aboard a NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Kennedy Space Center in FloridaWith a launch window from 7:02 p.m. and 7:34 p.m. he.
Intuitive machines plan to win the lunar landing near the southern pole of the Moon, near the Shackleton crater, where it will allow the surface and search for water, ice and other gases.
The lunar machine of the intuitive machine fell on the side, taking actions with it
The Nova-C Lunar Lander, designed by Aerospace Company Intuitive Machines, is displayed at the company’s headquarters in Texas. (Reuters / Evan Garcia / Photos / Reuters Photos)
This week, Trent Martin, main vice-president of space systems at Intuitive Machines, said at a conference call that they were currently faced with any problem with the Nova-C, adding that it was “buttoned and ready to leave “.
The mission is part of nasa$ 2.6 billion Lunar payload commercial services (Clps) Initiative. In August of last year, the company obtained a contract of $ 116.9 million under CLPs to deliver six useful scientific and technologies charges to the South Lunar pole.
Intuitive machines marked history last year when it became the first private company to successfully land on the Moon.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is above the Nova-C landing that has embarked on space on February 15, 2024. (Reuters / Joe Skipper / Photo File / Reuters Photos)
The company’s lunar arkenche for last year’s mission, Ulysses, appeared on the surface of the moon before switching.
The lunar landing has hit the surface of the moon, and although it was considered on the moon, the signal transmitted by the equipment has been lost.
Spacex Rocket escapes with the moon landing of intuitive machines
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts the LC-39A launching ramp to the Kennedy Space Center on the mission of Lander Moon Lander Intuitive Machines, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 15, 2024. (Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
After about 15 minutes, the signal returned, although low.
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“We are not yet dead,” said the director of the Mission Tim Crain, telling the team that the equipment was on the surface of the moon and transmitting. The state and orientation of the equipment were still unknown.
The last time an American spacecraft approached the Moon was in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.
Reuters contributed to this report.
