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.

Moon Monday #215: Firefly performs first actual soft lunar landing for the US in the 21st century, bags key firsts

Plus: Intuitive Machines and Lunar Trailblazer launch for Luna while KASA plans the same. And, maybe nobody should “dominate” space.

Joining Open Lunar’s orbit as their Science Communications Lead

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 Open Lunar’s research work on technical and policy building blocks towards cooperative and sustainable lunar

Moon Monday #214: Blue Ghost preps for lunar landing, gets its fix in lunar orbit

Plus: Intuitive Machines set to launch second Moon lander, Australia continues lunar tech investments, and more.

Moon Monday #213: Mission updates from the US, Japan, China, and this Indian

CLPS and Artemis updates * On February 13, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Moon lander part of NASA’s CLPS program successfully fired its engines for 4 minutes and 15 seconds to enter an elliptical orbit around Luna. Over the rest of February, Blue Ghost will fire its engines multiple times

Critical scientific documents go missing from NASA-backed lunar community website

A whole host of documents presenting work and recommendations of US scientists and engineers in service of NASA’s Moon exploration goals have gone missing from the website of the agency-backed Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG). The missing documents include but is not limited to the key 2023 CLOC-SAT report

Moon Monday #212: UNO Skip, then UNO Flip, ft. VIPER and Artemis

Plus: Scientific archives as your Wild Card, a Draw Four for Boeing, UNO Reverse with Japan, and a stack of Artemis updates.