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Athena Moon Lander
March 5 , 2025
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- Intuitive Machines' Athena and the Japanese private mission Resilience Hakuto-R2 are among the next lunar landers expected to touch down.
- Athena aims to improve upon the company's previous success with the Odysseus lander.
- Odysseus became the first American craft to achieve a soft lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
- The Resilience Hakuto-R2 mission, operated by the ispace, a Japanese private company, is taking a more indirect route to the Moon.
- This mission also marks Japan's second attempt at a lunar landing, following the successful deployment of the Hakuto-R1 mission's impactor.
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