Moon Monday #224: A curious find from Chandrayaan 3, Artemis updates, and more

Two announcements before we begin: 1. I’m honored to be moderating a fantastic panel on modern themes in global lunar exploration at the international Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) on Friday, May 9. If you’re attending GLEX in New Delhi, join us for the session. And, if you’

Indian Space Progress #27: Three months of mission updates, and fixing ISRO’s monthly summaries

ISRO has been publishing monthly summaries of the varied activities and programs of India’s Department of Space (DOS) for years. Lately though, there have been consistent delays in publishing them by a month or two, and sometimes even more. The summaries have been trimmed too, now conveying less than

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 National Space Day on April 24.

Moon Monday #222: How China navigated failure to nail down lunar navigation success

Plus: Exploration and science updates from the US, South Korea, and Europe.

Moon Monday #221: The US is failing to explore lunar water as the principal goal of Artemis

And, countries allied with the US are facing delays in their own missions, allowing China to lead in this aspect of lunar exploration too.

Moon Monday #220: Lunar science galore from the Chandrayaans

Plus mission updates and some tangents.

Newly approved Chandrayaan 5 LUPEX mission will drill for water on the Moon and aid Artemis | Indian Space Progress #25-26

Plus: A host of new lunar science results from Chandrayaan 2 and 3. Enjoy this 3200-word Chandrayaan-special. 🌙

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

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Moon Monday #218: A molten Moon, a date for the SPA, sunset for Blue Ghost as well as inclusive Artemis language, and more

There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee or another mild drug of choice and let’s get started. 🤓 Chang’e 6 samples produce two more big results Until now, all the direct evidence of our Moon being covered in a global magma

Moon Monday #217: Red A-CLPS 🔥💍

Also drills, flying regolith, a hard landing, Moonlight, and many more mission updates to quench the lunatic in you.

If nasaspaceflight.com and its forum are blocked for you too, here’s how to access them

Sometime last year, nasaspaceflight.com (NSF) stopped loading for me. I could not access any page on its website, all of which said “Sorry, you have been blocked” no matter which browser I tried. Since then I’ve been accessing the NSF site in alternate ways because of their valuable

Moon Monday #216: Firefly Blue Ghost brings precision landing and lunar sci-tech bounties

Plus: Contextualizing the failure of Intuitive Machines’ second Moon mission and that of Lunar Trailblazer as grave losses for NASA.