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I’m an Open Lunar Affiliate!

Jatan Mehta

19 Jul 2024 — 1 min read

I’m glad to share that alongside many inspiring individuals like Louis Burtz, Ranjana Kaul and Yoav Landsman, I’ve been an Affiliate at the Open Lunar Foundation for a while now. We’re thrilled to aid the non-profit’s daunting work of developing key technical and policy building blocks which aim to help ensure that the exploration of our Moon is cooperative and sustainable for everyone. 🚀🌙

In turn, Open Lunar’s work makes me proud also because they have been a kind sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter for four years now! 🌗

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

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

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

Sharing Moon Monday’s approach to avoiding (Artemis) hot takes and speculative coverage