Landed on the moon and a day, the robotic robotic vessel built by intuitive machines of Houston is dead.
At once Update his site on FridayIn addition, the company confirmed that Athena entered his side. Lunar Lander last year, Odysseus, last year, his first fate. Unable to fight the sun with solar panels, spacecraft batteries could not be loaded.
The company said he didn’t expect to revive the space.
Before silence the spacecraft, “mission drivers were able to accelerate various programs and load-landmarks,” said “intuitive machines. He didn’t take any details.
At the beginning of the Friday afternoon, NASA has not yet commented on the early consequences of the mission, which lasted 10 days until the darkness of the moon fell.
The mission is known as NASA’s commercial moon load service, or to hire CLPS, private companies, science tools and technology demonstrations to lead the moon. Celps, Texas, Texas, Texas Firefly, Firefly Footh Ceds Lander touched another robotic spacecraft on Sunday and doing science experiments in another part of the moon.
Athena landed on Thursday a flat mountain called Mons Mouton, 100 miles from the south pole of the Moon. It was the southern landing area of the spacecraft.
It completed about 150 kilometers from the landing area of space ships, the company said.
Athena was loading the load for NASA and commercial clients, three pencils, a rocket-fed drone and a drill, looking for water ice.
After landing, he clearly left the spaceship that it was not expected that it was not working.
On post-landing news, Steve Altemus, the General Directorate of Intuitive Machines, portrayed the tribulation in positive light. “When you send a spacecraft to Florida, a week later works on the moon, I declare success,” he said.
Investors don’t agree. The shares of intuitive machines, a publicly negotiated company fell 20 percent on Thursday and continued to go down on Friday at the beginning of negotiation. At noon Friday, the company’s stock was less than $ 9, dropped more than $ 13 when it opened Thursday.
Nicola Fox, an Association for the NASA Science Mission Management, has also tried to put positive rotation in disanimated results. “Our goal is to establish an American company on the surface of the Surface,” he said. “And that means that even if it is not perfectly landing, we learn lessons we can give and use in the future.”
But Athena’s rapid deaths once again raises questions about the strength of the NASA strategy.
So far, four CLPS missions are launched. Sunday ghosts only the landing of the blue spacecraft seems to be complete success. The two territories sent by intuitive machines were both landed in a working situation, but they did not achieve the most science goals.
The fourth CLPS mission, Pittsburgh astrotic technology, completely lost the moon last year, after launching its spacecraft peregrine systems shortly after launching.
“He said at least two successful companies,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, as the leader of Science Missions before Dr. Fox and created CLPS in 2017. “I hope more.”
Dr. Zurbuchen said from the beginning, perhaps that half of the missions would fail in the cheaper space vessel that companies should be taken.
The success of the blue ghost shows the successes of blue to be feasible missions with cheaper prices. The NASA paid $ 101 million to firefighters, to provide science experiments of $ 44 million.
Athena, NASA agreed to pay for an intuitive $ 62.5 million machine for the delivery service to Mons Mouton. Among the payers of Athen’s payers suggest to intersect business relationships promoting profitable economic moon is not entirely fantastic.
Nokia, for example, won the NASA contract to expand the 4G LTE mobile phone network on the moon. Nokia, Lunar, Lunar Golden, Colo to build a rover that would move the antenna for mobile phones, would allow Athena Lander’s tests, which would provide a renewal of Uhf radio for Lunar communications.
Lunar Outpost, then reported in space to other commercial customers.
In a statement, Nokia said that his system was successfully activated after landing, and lasted about 25 minutes.
“Unfortunately, Nokia could not call the first cell phone on the moon because of the factors outside our control, our users were cold temperatures in the modules of our device,” the statement said.
If CLPS shipping fails, commercial companies and NASA can turn more packets to send more packages.
One of the instruments of NASA carried by Athena was a drill made of honey robotics, the subsidiary of blue origin.
Interested to the moon a couple of decades ago after finding frozen water of crates that remain close to the poles. Three-meters below the surface, examining the NASA wanted to achieve a new approach and drill the future astronauts and how easy it can be punched.
But now the NASA must decide to collect that information that needs to spend more dollars.
NASA has already the same drill that is installed in the steam investigating the exploration, or Viper. Golf-Cart-size Rovers also introduced to landing on Mouth Mouton on the next Mailarobotic CLPS mission. But the space agency announced that last year he wanted to cancel Viper last year, although he already spent $ 450 million and the construction and tests of Rover were almost made up.
Since the Space Agency has been called the company’s proposals to send proposals to the moon without additional costs for NASA.
Danielle Kaye Contribution reports.
2025-03-07 19:08:00
