New probe from pioneering US company Intuitive Machines blasts off to the Moon

By Le Figaro with AFP

Published on February 27 at 01:29 , updated on February 27 at 01:30

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Joe Skipper/REUTERS

A second probe from the American company Intuitive Machines, the first private company to have successfully landed on the moon, took off from Florida on Wednesday, February 26, towards the Moon , according to a video broadcast. The liftoff took place aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the SpaceX company from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The probe, named Athena, carries scientific instruments from NASA, and should allow the American space agency to deepen its knowledge of the south pole of the Moon.

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