<ul><li>Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over.</li><li>The mission marks the second time in a row that Intuitive Machines has landed a spacecraft on the moon only to have the mission go sideways.</li><li>The spacecraft cannot recharge its batteries due to the orientation of the solar panels, direction of the sun, and extreme cold temperatures.</li><li>Intuitive Machines was able to deploy the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment and other undisclosed experiments.</li></ul>

Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

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