Ilona Mask rocket will deliver a module killed there a month and something for NASA (photo)
He landed on the moon in February last year as part of the IM-1 mission. In March this year, as part of the IM-2 mission on the moon, the second module of Intuit Machines called "Athena" was unsuccessful. It failed less than a day after landing. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.
Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Despite the last failure of Intuit Machines has already planned the launch of two new landing modules a month under the IM-3 and IM-4 missions. To send the IM-4 Intuitive Machines module satellite, Falcon 9, SpaceX, Ilona Maska's Falcon 9 Company 9 SpaceX. This run is scheduled for 2027. In addition to the planting module, two relay satellites for the NASA lunar network will be sent to the orbit around the month.
At the same time, Intuitiv Machines continues to work on its third monthly module of the IM-3 mission, which is expected in 2026. But it is unknown which rocket will bring it into space. Representatives of Intuitive Machines have stated that their satellites play an important role in the moon's commercialization strategy. It is planned to deploy the first lunar satellite-retraistor during the IM-3 mission, and two more during the IM-4 mission.
After that, it is planned to place in orbit around the moon two more communication satellites that will support NASA missions and commercial operations on the moon. It is known that on board the IM-4 mission mission will be placed 6 scientific devices and experiments of NASA, as well as a new drilling installation of the European Space Agency, designed to search for water near the South Pole of the month. It is still unknown that will be on board the module of the mission module.
As focus has already written, scientists have received evidence that the moon was part of our planet. A new study of the lunar rock samples delivered to the Earth by Chinese Chinese mission "Changier-6" shows that in the mantle on the back of the moon there is less water than in the mantle on the side. The results also confirm the theory that the moon was formed as a result of a giant blow to the Earth in the distant past.