A private space -built spaceship sent to the moon does not seem to be standing on the surface, the American company exploits it.
The intuitive landing, called Athena, seems to have survived the perilous descent in a mission that changes the situation to find water.
He slowed down more than 4,000 MPH to approach Mons Mouton, a crest only 100 miles from the southern pole of Lunar.
But the director general of intuitive machines, Steve Altemus, said at a press conference: “We do not believe that we are in the correct attitude on the surface of the moon, again.”
Last year, an intuitive spacecraft overturned landing after stumbling on a rock.
Although he responded to orders sent by Mission Control, he did not send images immediately after landing, as planned.
The actions of the company have plummeted while the engineers tried to establish a complete communication.
The South Pole region is the destination of NASA astronauts due to the earth on the surface in only two years.
But the descent of Athena on an uneven land, sometimes by communication with listening stations on Earth, underlines the risks they will face.
If Athena is capable of fueling her systems and operating normally, he should release the first Robotic Rover in private on the lunar surface.
As he crosses the ground, he will build a 3D card and will test the first high -speed mobile communications network on the moon.
Water search
But the main goal of the mission is to find water.
Athena has a forest to take samples one meter below the surface.
And he will release a small “hopper” which will bounce in a deep crater which is permanently in the shadows, where there could be ice.
Professor Katherine Joy, planetary geologist of the University of Manchester, who advises the mission of NASA Artemis, said that the orbit spacecraft had spotted signs of water in the craters.
But this must be confirmed in the field.
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She told Sky News: “These craters are incredibly cold, around -230c (-382f). Ice could be maintained for thousands, millions and maybe even billions of years.
“So there can be a lot of ice.
“This would mean that we could exploit these deposits to convert water into drink, make oxygen to breathe and even create rocket fuel.”