What is pending for SpaceX Starship to be a Moonship for NASA astronauts? Nearly everything.
Moon Monday #276: NASA’s road to putting humans on the Moon through SpaceX Starship continues to face a receding sea of milestones to achieve.
Science results from India’s Chandrayaan 3 Moon mission | Moon Monday #275
The near-polar lunar surface and environment had never been measured in-situ before Chandrayaan 3 arrived. Now our understanding of it has been grounded in measurements just as we prepare to send a wave of Moon missions.
Moon Monday #274: Artemis updates and Japanese missions galore
Artemis updates * Science communicator Hank Green made this interactive website of photos spread across the timeline of the Artemis II lunar mission and flyby. * Among the technological checkpoints passed by Artemis II, the NASA-MIT-developed optical laser communications terminal on the Orion spacecraft was successfully used to transmit and receive data
Articles on Venus, the ignored
* Why explore Venus * VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper * EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus * ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA Related: Coverage of India’s exploration of Mars Like my efforts to provide free resources for space communities worldwide? Kindly sponsor my work
Articles on moons other than our Moon
The not-Moon-Monday edition. 🌝
India’s Chandrayaan 4 lunar sampling mission cross-pollinates science, rockets, governance, and human spaceflight
Part 4 of India’s space launch crisis: Why India needs to launch Chandrayaan 4 in time to ensure maximum national and international benefits | Moon Monday #273 and Indian Space Progress #38
Articles on future Chandrayaan missions
* Chandrayaan 4 will bring unique Moon materials—and maybe a giant scientific leap for India * The case for India and China to exchange lunar samples * Why India needs to launch Chandrayaan 4 in time to ensure maximum national and international benefits * Chandrayaan 5 LUPEX mission will drill for water on
Articles: Science from Chandrayaan 3
* How Chandrayaan 3 contributed insights on our Moon’s origin and evolution * Results from Chandrayaan 3 thermal experiment benefit future missions eyeing lunar water * Chandrayaan 3 rover may (or may not) have stumbled upon the Moon’s mantle material * Chandrayaan 3 orbiter observed Earth like an exoplanet * An overview of
Articles: From a crashing Chandrayaan 2 to an upright Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon
* On Chandrayaan 2’s landing attempt failure * Overview of Chandrayaan 2, India’s first Moon landing attempt * Watching Chandrayaan 2 launch * Explainer: Why did it take so long to find the Chandrayaan 2 lander? * Chandrayaan 2, the orbiter to remember * India aims for the Moon again with launch of Chandrayaan
Poem: Don’t screw up the Moon
Let’s explore explore our Moon and its archival boon of Earth’s midnight and afternoon Let’s return return to the gray blemishes for its scientific promises and its technological wishes Let’s also preserve preserve Luna’s natural dents its phases and cultural crescents and the serene sights
With Artemis II done, challenges confront NASA to send astronauts on Artemis III and IV | Moon Monday #272
Key developments to watch out for this year as both China and the US aim to land humans on the Moon by the end of this decade.
Articles on Chandrayaan 2, the orbiter to remember
* ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter has been creating the highest resolution map of the Moon * Lunar science galore from Chandrayaan 2 * How the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is a Sun watcher at the Moon * The search for lunar water deepens * International collaboration and outlook: * ISRO has been aiding NASA in Artemis
