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.

Moon Monday Moon Monday #231: Achievements and shortfalls in Moon exploration this half year A review of notable developments by country or region.

A complicated question to answer for a controversial flight intended to advance India’s grand ambition of indigenously sending humans to space.

Independent Space Writer: Moon Monday and Indian Space Progress 🌙 Journalist with articles published globally Science Communications Lead for the Open Lunar Foundation Quoted on Nature, The Hindu, ...

Moon Monday Moon Monday #227: Proposed cuts, cancellations, continuations, and changes to NASA’s lunar missions And other mission updates.

Articles How NASA and India discovered water on our Moon The story of finding water on the Moon spans at least two decades and multiple space agencies, culminating in renewed lunar exploration plans ...

The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.

Unlike traditional missions, these CLPS missions are built, operated and managed by their companies, with lower oversight from NASA. The agency primarily dictates preferences for the landing sites, ...

Articles The tiniest of impact craters [Guest post] Small meteorites constantly bombard the Moon and create micro-sized craters.

ispace’s M1 mission is carrying the following key payloads to the Moon. ispace’s M1 mission is also notable for some of its partnerships that go beyond the traditional norm of carrying of instruments ...

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 ...

Articles Chang’e 5 landing site: Near the volcanic complex of Rümker China has returned Moon samples from a sweet scientific spot for their first sample return mission.