New Delhi: Intuitive Machines, the private US company that paved the way for commercial operations on the lunar surface with the Odysseus Moon Lander in February last year, is returning to the Moon with its second mission. The Moon Lander, named Athena is scheduled to launch no sooner than 26 February from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lander will carry with it a micro hopper drone powered by rockets, called Gracie. This micro drone will execute five hops on the lunar surface, rapidly........

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