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Officials said a private landfield that was sent to the moon had failed.
This is the second failed effort by its creators, visual cars. The company said that, like the first, it was on the ground and couldn’t complete its device.
It declared the defeat less than 24 hours after trying to land. Initially, engineers were unclear how the rover landed and how much work might be done before it was turned off.
Launched last week, Landar, Athena, lost more than 800 feet and ended in a cold crater.
It succeeded in confirming the images that confirm its position and activated several tests before silence.
NASA and other Landar customers were packaged with an ice drill, drone and two rows.
Given how the solar boards and the intense cold in the opening, Athena’s batteries are unlikely to be rechargeable.
“The mission is over and teams continue to evaluate the data collected during the mission,” the company said in a statement.
This was the second landing effort for visual cars.
The first, a year ago, ended with a lateral landing, but the company was able to continue more than this time despite various communications and operations.
Earlier in the week, another Texas company scored a landing land under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program.
Aerospace Firefly Ghost Lander in the northern latitudes near the moon.
Additional reports by agencies
