“KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – NASA is scheduled to launch a dishwater-sized NASA satellite ‘Athena’ to identify where water – a precious resource for lunar missions – resides on the moon’s surface in places such as the permanently shadowed craters at its South Pole.
SCHEDULE:
0017 GMT 27/02 – Scheduled launch time
TIME / DATE SUBJECT TO CHANGE”
credit Intuitive Machines/NASA/Space X
Athena notes from wikipedia:
IM-2 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried on February 26, 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA’s CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander.[3][4] The company named this lander Athena.[5] The mission aims to uncover the presence and amount of lunar water ice using PRIME-1, which consists of a drill and mass spectrometer. The lander will carry a Micro Nova Hopper, a drone that will utilize its neutron spectrometer in the PSR (permanently shadowed region) of the nearby Marston crater. If successful, this would provide the first measurement of hydrogen on the surface in the PSR, a key indicator of water.[6][7]
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