Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

LRA deputy principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland. "If a laser altimeter, either during orbit or descent, shines onto the Laser Retroreflector Array, it will show up ...

NASA and those companies will need to work fast ... An instrument known as a laser retroreflector array (LRA) on the top deck of the lander will be able to bounce laser light back at any orbiting ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

In addition, a passive laser retroreflector array (LRA) on the top deck of the lander ... drone "that can hop across the lunar surface," NASA said. The IM-2 mission represents a "leap forward ...

Not only was this tech the first to reach our planet's satellite under the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload ... Then comes the Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), which should turn into a reference ...

The lander will carry NASA science investigations and technology ... In addition, a passive Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) on the top deck of the lander will bounce laser light back at any ...