NASA's brand-new Lunar Trailblazer probe suffers glitch on way to the moon

An artist's depiction of Lunar Trailblazer at work around the moon.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe could be in trouble.

Lunar Trailblazer launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Feb. 26 alongside Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander on the IM-2 mission. The 11.5-foot (3.5-meter), 440-pound (200-kilogram) probe was designed to orbit low over the lunar surface to hunt for and map where water might be found in permanently shadowed regions on the moon. While its launch went smoothly, things do not appear to be going well for the spacecraft, according to a NASA update.