The touchdown came one year after Intuitive's first moon lander, named Odysseus, landed on the moon ... tug designed to work in Earth orbit. NASA lost contact with its Lunar Trailblazer satellite ...

With the lander unable to generate power ... lunar landing attempt by the Houston-based company. Its first moon landing on the IM-1 mission last year also tipped over when one of its Odysseus ...

Solar power is being generated ... Intuitive Machines’ first lander Odysseus in 2024 made the first successful landing by a commercial company on the surface of the moon, but it partially ...

The timing was partly dictated by the availability of sunlight on the moon's surface. The Athena lander used solar power ... Intuitive Machines delivered its Odysseus lander to the moon in ...

The title references Intuitive Machines, another Texas-based company, whose Odysseus lander last year became the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. That vehicle, however ...

The company's first lander, Odysseus, came in too fast, caught a foot on the surface and toppled over, cutting the mission short when its solar panels could not generate enough power.