IM-2¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Athena · landed
Launch: 2025-02-27. Landing: 2025-03-06.
Athena landed on its side and the mission ended early; NASA received some data. Launch was 26 Feb 2025 local time (FO page), 27 Feb UTC (Wikipedia). NASA lists PRIME-1 (TRIDENT, MSolo) and the LRA as its payloads. NASA's press kit lists the hopper and Nokia's network as STMD Tipping Point demonstrations, apart from both NASA and non-NASA payloads; they are commercial payloads here. The hopper carried DLR's Lunar Radiometer and Puli's water snooper; Lunar Outpost's MAPP carried MIT's AstroAnt and camera; Lonestar's Freedom carried ARMAS. Left out as a memento: MIT's silicon wafer of messages. The CLPS office's LPSC summary mentions LRAD; NASA's timeline does not.
Wikipedia: IM-2.
| Payload | Kind | FO | Earlier flights | On the Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain (TRIDENT), part of PRIME-1 | NASA payload | company-level | none found | partly operated |
| Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo), part of PRIME-1 | NASA payload | none | none found | partly operated |
| Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) | NASA payload | none | Earth orbit or deep space, earlier lunar mission | not in public sources |
| Micro Nova hopper (Grace) | commercial payload | none | none found | partly operated |
| Lunar Surface Communications System (LSCS), Nokia | commercial payload | none | none found | partly operated |
| Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover | commercial payload | none | none found | partly operated |
| AstroAnt | commercial payload | tested | FO, aircraft (not FO) | partly operated |
| MIT high-resolution camera on MAPP | commercial payload | company-level | aircraft (not FO) | partly operated |
| Lunar Radiometer (LRAD) | commercial payload | none | Earth orbit or deep space | not in public sources |
| Puli Lunar Water Snooper | commercial payload | none | none found | partly operated |
| YAOKI rover | commercial payload | none | none found | no data: lander failure |
| Freedom (Lonestar data storage payload) | commercial payload | none | ISS or MISSE, earlier lunar mission | partly operated |
| Automated Radiation Measurement for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS) | commercial payload | tested | FO, ISS or MISSE, aircraft (not FO) | partly operated |
| MiniPIX TPX3 SPACE radiation monitor | commercial payload | none | Earth orbit or deep space, ISS or MISSE | not in public sources |