Achievements and shortfalls in global lunar exploration in 2025
Moon Monday #255: Capturing the state of the world’s lunar exploration efforts this year.
ISRO and India had a mixed year in space in 2025
Indian Space Progress #34: An honest review of the country’s space activities this year
Moon Monday #254: The one following last week’s embarrassing typo
What could’ve been the real headline instead: Lunar mission updates and India’s ultimate Moonshot.
A space program can only move as swiftly as its rockets. It’s India’s time to act on that.
Indian Space Progress #33: A review of the state of ISRO’s orbital launch vehicles reveals a bleak picture of ambitious goals sliding to the right—in stark contrast to the incessant chest thumping about efficiency.
Moon Monday #253: A peek at new lunar samples and mission updates
Here is a peek at some lunar samples from China’s Chang’e 5 nearside landing mission as well as the Chang’e 6 farside one! Holding them is an incredible feeling that vividly reminds you of the immense and irreplaceable value of exploring our Moon. 🌙 Check my coverage of
Lunar sample science updates straight from Hong Kong | Moon Monday #252
A volcano of new results which have improved our understanding of our cosmic companion.
Moon Monday #251: Prepping to live on Luna via analogs on Earth
Plus mission updates and more memes.
Celebrating 5 years and 10,000 subscribers of Moon Monday with globally published poetry on space
It also lays the foundation for the next phase in my space writing: Merge the worlds of blogs and books.
Moon Monday #250: One small step, mission updates, and a much needed giant leap
Welcome to the 250th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! 🚀🌕 One small step: About two months ago, Moon Monday crossed 10,000 subscribers. I did not announce it until now because I wanted to celebrate it in some way. Having readers and supporters be truly spread around the world
A giant leap in orbital imagery is what we need to realize advanced Moon missions
At over 1.6 petabytes, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission hosts by far the largest dataset from any planetary science spacecraft ever launched. LRO’s high-resolution lunar imagery and topographic data has been the bedrock for selecting landing sites of most Moon missions launched this century from around
Moon Monday #249: The one published on Sunday
Mission updates from China and the US.
Moon Monday #248: The one that starts with a meme
China preps complex Chang’e 7 mission to study lunar water while US Artemis III rejigs.