It brings me no pleasure to announce that Intuitive Machine's Athena Moon lander has been declared dead. An ex-Moon lander. Ceased to be, bereft of life, and joined the choir invisible. Onboard was a miniature data center provided by Lonestar, complete with a Phison enterprise-grade SSD. And on that SSD, as we've learned from a post on Linkedin authored by Lonestar's CEO, Chris Stott, are the lyrics to a song by Imagine Dragons for Bethesda's troubled space RPG, Starfield.
Two moon shots then, one quite literal and one metaphorical—and both victims, it seems, of a particularly bumpy landing.
