By Patrick Mooney, Ken Rosenthal and Sahadev Sharma CHICAGO — At first glance, the post from an X user named @Brooks_Gate seemed like something a multibillion-dollar company would ignore. It consisted of a chart that used estimated data to illustrate the percentage of revenue spent on player payroll. Rather than sitting at the top with…
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Athena lander Intuitive Machines‘ latest attempt at a Moon landing ended in disappointment as its Athena spacecraft tipped over upon touchdown, mirroring its first lunar setback last year. The Houston-based company confirmed Friday that the solar-powered lander is unable to recharge, cutting the mission short.The setback marks a premature end to what…
A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed that Athena had tipped onto its side — the same fate that befell its first lunar lander, Odysseus, last year. With its solar panels unable…
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it remained unclear whether its touchdown was smooth enough to perform its intended work, or if it toppled over in the process, potentially limiting…
March 6, 2025, 9:45 a.m. ET Odysseus captured this image about 35 seconds after pitching over during its approach to the landing site last year.Credit…Intuitive Machines Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ first lander, landed on the moon in February 2024. But not perfectly. The spacecraft was almost doomed before it even left Earth. Safety switches on laser…
Nasa is going a long way in space travel by getting ready to launch the first-ever mobile network on the Moon. This historic move is part of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission that will deploy the Lunar Surface Communication System (LSCS), a network that Nokia has developed and will use the same cellular technology employed on…
J. Fraser Stoddart, a Scottish-born scientist who went from playing with construction sets as a boy to building molecular machines a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, known as nanomachines, for which he shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died on Dec. 30 in Melbourne, Australia. He was 82. Alison…
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday took a divergent position from his party’s stance over the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) following the party’s poor showing in Maharashtra’s assembly elections.While Tharoor defended the reliability of EVMs, he expressed concerns about possible manipulation within the electoral…
HYDERABAD: Amber-Resojet, a 50:50 joint venture between Delhi NCR-based air conditioning solutions provider Amber Enterprises and Hyderabad-based Resolute Group, is investing Rs 250 crore in setting up manufacturing facilities in the state.The investment will be made in setting up capacities for developing fully automatic top-load and front-load washing machines along with their components as part…