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Intuitive Machines lands near lunar south pole, but fate of private Athena probe unclear

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Intuitive Machines' Athena landed on the moon today .

The mission team could not immediately determine if Athena landed fully upright as planned.

Athena 's main payload is the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment , or PRIME-1.

The goal is to gather a wealth of cost-effective data about the lunar environment.

IM-2 mission is part of a new wave of private lunar exploration.

Athena and Odysseus are the latest private lunar landers to land on the moon.

The solar-powered Athena carries a Lonestar data server and a 17.6-ounce ( 498-gram ) tech-demonstrating robot.

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