Mission record
Intuitive Machines 2 (PRIME-1)
Also known as IM-2, Athena
Intuitive Machines · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Partial success
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, Athena, touched down inside a crater near Mons Mouton, collected some NASA data, and ended its mission early.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SpaceX Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Athena · Lander
Destinations: Moon
Grace · Lander
MAPP · Rover
AstroAnt · Rover
Yaoki · Rover
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Athena: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · Intuitive Machines/KinetX best-estimated flight SPICE · source-covered from 2025-02-27T01:00:08.520Z through 2025-03-06T17:28:42.784Z · launch-to-coverage gap and contact-to-final-landed-orientation interval omitted · provider position error estimates: transit max 10 km/average 2 km; low lunar orbit max 250 m/average 50 m · February 27, 2025 to March 6, 2025
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 10, 2026
- YAOKI original 25-image release and viewing geometry — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- YAOKI manufacturer hardware description — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- YAOKI mission results, March 8, 2025 — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects: IM-2 Athena payload rows — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Voyage 1 Update — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- AstroAnt Payload: MIT lunar mission hardware and parent rover — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Athena IM-2 reconstructed cruise SPK — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- Athena IM-2 reconstructed powered-descent SPK — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- Athena — NASA CLPS/PDS reconstructed flight source — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- Athena — NASA CLPS/PDS descent and first ground contact — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Athena — surface site — native fixed landing-site source — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- Flight-Tested Technologies for Safety in Space Go to the Moon — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Houston We Have a Podcast 373: Intuitive Machines Returns to the Moon — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- PRIME-1 MSolo overview and results, April 2026 science-team presentation — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Athena PRIME-1 actual deployment and operations — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- NASA CLPS team report and Athena deployed-drill photograph — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Deployable Hopper FY22 Annual Review, September 14, 2022 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Deployable Lunar Hopper: completed project record, updated May 2026 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- NASA PDS Athena spacecraft context and payload outcome — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- TRIDENT Ice Mining Drill for Lunar Volatile Prospecting for PRIME-1 and VIPER Missions — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context