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Moon Monday By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans to our Moon this decade.
2019 has been a thrilling year for space exploration with over 100 space launches. 2020 promises to be even more exciting with almost double the launches planned! Here are the most anticipated space ...
Articles Why explore Saturn and its moons The crown jewel of our solar system has complex rings, diverse moons and possible life to find.
Moon Monday Moon Monday #223: International researchers to study Chang’e lunar samples, including US ones but without NASA funding And more such interesting Moon exploration updates from China’s ...
Moon Monday Moon Monday #231: Achievements and shortfalls in Moon exploration this half year A review of notable developments by country or region.
The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.
Moon Monday Moon Monday #209: Let’s be high on launch and low on provocation Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed.
I’m thrilled to share that over and above my flagship Moon Monday blog+newsletter, I’ve joined the Open Lunar Foundation as their ‘Science Communications Lead’. In that role, I’ll help communicate ...
The situation has compelled their three space agencies—NASA, ISRO, and KARI—to coordinate and share precise trajectory information of the lunar satellites with each other, and even conduct diversion ...
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This edition marks two years of publishing the monthly Indian Space Progress blog+newsletter. I started it with the goal of trying to compile, capture, and globally contextualize true trajectories of ...
Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen ...