Moon Monday By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans 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.

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

Japan’s SLIM lander has sparked a new era of precision landings, with big implications for lunar science and exploration ...

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 ...

I’d like to bring your attention to a worrying report on SpaceX’s safety issues as published yesterday by Reuters based on what looks like a comprehensive investigation. The whole article is worth a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moon Monday Moon Monday #219: Results from India’s Chandrayaan 3 experiment to benefit future missions eyeing lunar water 👀 🧊 🌘 ...

NASA advances science planning for the historic return of humans to the Moon In a historic return since Apollo, NASA aims to land astronauts on our Moon again mid-decade with Artemis III. What science ...

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