How to Watch the Launch of Intuitive Machines’s Second Moon Landing Mission

Instinctive Machines landed a robotic on the moon in 2015. Can the Houston business do it once again, however keep the spacecraft upright this time?

The business’s 2nd lander, called Athena, introduced on Wednesday night on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on an arcing course to the moon.

The spacecraft turned itself on, however then numerous minutes of thriller followed when it was late to sign in. Ultimately, information from the probe got here, accompanied by relief at Intuitive Machines’ objective control.

On March 6, the spacecraft will try to land in Mons Mouton, an area about 100 miles from the moon’s south pole. That will be closer to the south pole than any previous spacecraft has actually landed.