Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

The hopper is designed to fly 100m in height ... Nasa is partnering with a range of private companies that transport spacecraft and instruments to the Moon. It says this is cheaper than developing and ...

But the spacecraft autonomously maneuvered to find ... The innovative "Grace" hopper was designed to jump into one of those dark craters about a quarter of a mile from Athena for in situ ...

and even a hopper spacecraft that will try to “jump” into a permanently dark lunar crater to search for ice. “NASA and the space industry is creating a new business, getting science and ...

as well as one crucial NASA spacecraft joining the launch on its own seperate lunar mission. A small propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper will be able to explore a wider swath of the ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft successfully landed on the ... Machine's propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper, which can hop across the lunar surface, and the first-ever ...

The mission includes a rover and a hopper, which carry experimental technology ... the director of Firefly's spacecraft program, told BI. Related stories If Blue Ghost succeeds, it will run ...

The spacecraft will travel for about a week before ... The lander includes a drill, a robotic “hopper” and a rover, each of which will explore the moon’s surface and whether there is ...

The hopper has two instruments: One from the German Aerospace Center that will take the crater’s temperature to identify locations cold enough for frozen water and another from Puli Space ...

The spacecraft is solar-powered ... Athena will also test a small “hopper” rover named Grace, after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, which is designed to jump across the ...