Intuitive Machines is set to launch its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust, after Odysseus tipped over during touchdown last February.

Intuitive Machines designed and will operate the Athena lunar lander on the company's second voyage to the moon's south pole to hunt for water.

SpaceX launched its IM-2 lunar mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aiming to get closer to the moon's south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that never sees the sun.