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 to face the sun, the spacecraft’s batteries could not recharge.

The company said it did not expect the spacecraft to revive.

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Before the spacecraft fell silent, it said “mission controllers were able to accelerate several program and payload milestones.”

On Friday afternoon, NASA reported that some of its payloads were able to turn on and send back data before the lander stopped working. The mission was supposed to last 10 days until the darkness of lunar night fell over that part of the moon.

The mission was part of a NASA program known as Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS,66jogo Jogos de Cassino Online no Brasil to contract private companies to carry science instruments and technology demonstrations to the moon at a lower cost. Another robotic spacecraft that is part of CLPS, the Blue Ghost lander by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, touched down on Sunday and is conducting science experiments on another part of the moon.

Athena landed on Thursday on a flat-topped mountain named Mons Mouton, about 100 miles from the moon’s south pole. It was the southernmost landing site of any spacecraft.

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The company’s Starliner capsule returned to Earth safely from the International Space Station on Friday night, but without the two astronauts it took up there in June because NASA was concerned about thrusters on the capsule that had malfunctioned before it docked at the station.

David Rothery, a volcanologist at the Open University in England, refers to Mercury as “Lord of the Peak Rings.”

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