Moon mission Athena: New attempt - landing on March 6th!

Moon mission Athena: New attempt - landing on March 6th!

The moon becomes the setting for exciting developments in the area of ​​space travel again! The Lander "Blue Ghost", which started in January 2025 with a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral space station in Florida, will now be examined for two weeks with various scientific instruments. This is an important step because it is part of the NASA program CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payoad Services) that promotes cooperation with private companies to enable cost-efficient moon missions. The “Resilience” of the Japanese start-up ISPACE was also sent to space together with “Blue Ghost”; However, it will later land on the moon at a later date vienna.at reported.

The tension increases, because on March 6, 2025, the next spacecraft, the Lander "Athena" by intuitive machines, will break into adventure. This country is said to land in the Mons Mouton region, near the southern moon pole, and is the first to end up in this undiscovered area. In the past year, intuitive machines celebrated a historical success with their landing "Odysseus" by carrying out the first commercial landing on the moon, even if the spacecraft tipped on the side. This was the first gentle moon landing of an American spacecraft since the Apollo-17 mission in 1972, like nytimes.com executed.

With the support of $ 2.6 billion through NASA, researching the moon will continue to be promoted in the future. However, the many risks and challenges associated with moon landings will continue to offer a large space for technical innovations and improvements. The upcoming start of "Athena", which is equipped with a new jumping drone, is eagerly awaited, since the drone is helped to explore the rough lunar surface and possibly provide valuable information about water deposits. Intuitive machines are ready to take the next steps in the history of moon missions and literally blooms in the race for space innovations.