A private lunar lander has taken another step toward its historic moonshot. The robotic Nova-C spacecraft was encapsulated inside the payload fairing of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today (Jan.

A SpaceX rocket carrying a lunar lander from Intuitive Machines blasted off Thursday morning from Florida in the latest attempt to put an American spacecraft on the moon since the last crewed ...

Reuters reported that a company executive confirmed the space exploration firm is "ready to go," with the scheduled launch of its six-legged Nova-C moon lander ... Falcon 9 rocket from NASA ...

An illustration of the Nova-C lander on the surface of the Moon. Illustration: Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines is preparing its Nova-C lander for takeoff, hoping that it becomes the first ...

“There is that deployment. You can see IM-2 Nova-C lunar lander named Athena floating away from Falcon 9 second stage.” Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second ...

The company had to modify the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket to add propellants onto the Nova C lander at the launch pad shortly before liftoff. SpaceX and Intuitive Machines completed two ...

To get around this issue, Intuitive Machines and SpaceX started fueling the Nova-C class lander’s VR900 engine (which was built by IM) just three hours before lift-off, when the rocket was on ...

The Nova-C Odysseus will now ... spacecraft blasted off aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:05am GMT (1:05am ET). Onboard the lander are 12 payloads, including ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch landers for ... The triumphant touchdown of the company’s Nova-C lunar lander, called Odysseus, spurred jubilant cheers during the company’s webcast.

Over the course of six weeks, three different lunar landers began a rocket-fueled space journey ... 4.73-meter-tall (15.3 ft) tall Nova-C lander “Athena” is currently on path to the moon ...