Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the companys spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moons surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday. Its the second private spacecraft to land on the moon this week, after Firefly Aerospaces Blue Ghost touched down on March 2. Intuitive Machines chief technology officer said in a post-landing press conference that Athena is somewhere inside the 50-meter landing zone on Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain on the moons south pole. But he said the company was still working on determining where, exactly, Athena touched down.CEO Steve Altemus added during the conference that the company doesnt think Athena is at the correct attitude spaceflight speak for it probably tipped over.Altemus otherwise praised the mission, which he said went much more smoothly than last years trip to the moon. The rest of Athenas mission now hangs in the balance. The spacecraft, which took off for the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, is carrying a number of technologies that Intuitive Machines hoped to test out. One is a passive laser retroreflector array, which Intuitive Machines hopes to use to communicate with other incoming or orbiting spacecraft. Its a crucial piece of technology for NASAs hopes to build a permanent moon base so much so that the space agency awarded Intuitive Machines a $4.8 billion contract late last year to build out the communications system. (Only $150 million of that is guaranteed.)Athena is also carrying an ice mining experiment for NASA, which the agency had hoped to use to determine whether there are enough natural resources on the moon to one day make fuel or breathable oxygen. Additional payloads include a rover called MAPP that is supposed to test out cellular equipment from Nokia, and solid-state storage billed as the first ever lunar data center.