Verses: Hope in desolation

Space just desolate… and yet humans launch hope to explore some more On our Moon from where the Sun never shines, a new era will dawn. Notes: 1. There’s nothing quite as bold and beautiful as committing to venturing the brutal colossal desolation that is space. Every (civil) space

Moon Monday #242: Artemis II advances, and so does Long March 10 🔥

Plus mission updates.

We’re building future technologies for the Moon without closing missed milestones

A review of upcoming and past lunar missions of this decade shows a wide gap between notions of technological progress versus achieved reality.

Chandrayaan 4 will bring unique Moon materials—and maybe a giant scientific leap for India

Moon Monday #241 and Indian Space Progress #31

No, Starship’s latest success doesn’t favor the US over China in landing humans on Luna | Moon Monday #240

Plus mission updates.

Our Moon is valuable even beyond itself | Moon Monday #239

And how science does not exist in a (lunar) vacuum.

Moon Monday #238: The long march to Luna continues

Plus Artemis updates.

Notable nuances about NISAR and how it flows into planetary science for NASA and ISRO | Indian Space Progress #30

NISAR demonstrates peak peaceful uses of cutting-edge space technologies to solve humanity’s fundamental problems, and then some more.

Moon Monday #237: China completes large lander test in latest milestone to put humans on the Moon

Reviewing all recent advances from China as it prepares to perform crewed Moon missions. Plus more mission updates.

Moon Monday #236: A third orbiter-lander-rover trio to fire-and-fly

I’m thrilled to welcome Astrolab as a continuing yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! California-based Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) is developing the large multi-purpose rovers of FLEX and FLIP for advanced exploration of our Moon this decade and next. Through FLEX, Astrolab leads one of the three

Everything you need to know about NASA CLPS Moon landing missions

A look at the armada of robotic landers NASA is riding to the Moon this decade.

A story about open knowledge sharing in space

It was eight years ago that I wrote a guide on how to correctly and reliably install NASA’s popular HEASoft software on Linux, a software which is extensively used in high energy Astrophysics research. I wrote it because the official guides on NASA HEASoft’s website were failing to