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India aims for the Moon with launch of Chandrayaan 3
The ambitious mission comes as India signs the US-led Artemis Accords to shape future global lunar activities.
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Moon Monday #136: Chandrayaan 3 on its way to Luna as Russia and Japan prep their Moonshot, plus NASA mission updates
On July 14, Friday at 14:35 IST (09:05 UTC), ISRO launched the robotic Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft for a second attempt to land on the Moon. Chandrayaan 3’s Project Director P. Veeramuthuvel said in a post-launch briefing that the GSLV Mk III rocket injected the spacecraft close to
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Indian Space Progress #6: Chandrayaan 3 launches for the Moon as India signs the Artemis Accords and expands the scope of Gaganyaan
On July 14, Friday at 14:35 IST (09:05 UTC), ISRO launched the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft for its second Moon landing attempt. Chandrayaan 3’s Project Director P. Veeramuthuvel said in a post-launch briefing that the GSLV Mk III rocket injected the spacecraft close to the ideal intended orbit
China and Luna
Moon Monday #135: India set to launch Chandrayaan 3, an overview of Chang’e 5 science, and more
I’m pleased to welcome Arun Raghavan as the first individual sponsor of Moon Monday for a year! If you too would like to personally support this one-of-a-kind newsletter and space community resource, get in touch: Email me: hey@jatan.space Chandrayaan 3 takes off on July 14 ISRO is
US Artemis
Moon Monday #134: A whole bunch of lunar exploration updates from around the world!
I’m over the Moon to share that Open Lunar Foundation is continuing to sponsor Moon Monday for one more year! 🌗 Open Lunar is a non-profit organization developing space policies, plans, and partnerships to help ensure that our return to the Moon with humans for eventual long-term habitation is peaceful,
US Artemis
Moon Monday #133: India signs the Artemis Accords; NASA prepares for future crewed lunar exploration; Chandrayaan 3 update, and more
From Chandrayaan 1 to the Artemis Accords, India and US aim for the Moon As part of an unprecedented set of broad-sweeping agreements between the US and India centered around collaborative science & technology advancements, India signed the Artemis Accords on June 21. India is the 27th country—but more
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Moon Monday #132: India and the Artemis Accords, mission updates, and more
Thank you so much everyone for your kind notes on Moon Monday crossing 5,000 readers :). Considering the upcoming wave of exciting Moon missions from around the globe, I’m gathering feedback on how I can continue uniquely serving lunar and space communities with this one-of-a-kind newsletter. I request you
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Grateful to the 5,000 of you for reading Moon Monday
Hello fellow lunatics! I’m happy to share that my Moon Monday newsletter now has more than 5,000 readers. 🚀 Thank you so much to each one of you for reading my labor of lunar love. It means a lot that so many space buffs want to stay in the
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Moon Monday #131: Pathfinding for lunarbound hardware, gleaning a solid core, and more
Hardware for Moonbound navigation arrives SpacePNT has delivered the ‘NaviMoon’ GNSS receiver for SSTL’s ESA-backed Lunar Pathfinder orbiter, which is targeting a 2026 launch. The payload is at the heart of an ESA-NASA collaboration to demonstrate a location fix at Luna using signals millions of times fainter than those
US Artemis
Moon Monday #130: Artemis III science, some Starship specifics, mission updates, and more
NASA advances science planning for the historic return of humans to the Moon In a historic return since Apollo, NASA aims to land astronauts on our Moon again mid-decade with Artemis III. What science instruments will they bring along to deploy on the Moon’s south pole for advancing our
Indian Space
Indian Space Progress #5: ISRO’s navigation satellites, advances toward human spaceflight, and more science & technology updates
ISRO begins launching navigation satellites with GPS interoperability and self-made atomic clocks On May 29, an ISRO GSLV Mk II rocket successfully launched and deployed the NVS-01 navigation satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), providing a much needed boost to India’s regional navigation service called Navigation with Indian
Japan and Selene
Moon Monday #129: ispace lander’s crash site and cause, mission updates, and more
ispace Japan’s first Moon lander crashed less than 7 kilometers from its target site Just a month after ispace Japan’s first lunar lander Hakuto-R failed to touchdown on the Moon on April 25, the company has identified from telemetry data the key causes of the M1 surface mission