US Artemis
Welcome back to Moon Monday! :D 2023 promises to treat us lunatics with seven robotic Moon landing attempts, with possibly three of them from the U.S., two from Japan, and one each from India and Russia. Below are the latest available updates on them all. Moon landing mission updates
Explore
Dear readers, In my lifelong mission to write about the exploration of space and our Moon, 2022 turned out to be very productive and satiating. I published 51 editions of my one-of-a-kind Moon Monday newsletter, and wrote 25+ articles on space exploration at large. I also took a major step
Moon Monday
I’ll be taking my year end break from publishing Moon Monday for two weeks, and get the much needed free time to rest, refresh, and reflect. The next edition will be out on January 9, 2023 and cover all updates between now and then. I hope you enjoy the
Articles
The lunar orbiter launched South Korea’s deep space ambitions.
Articles
South Korea is about to have its Chandrayaan 1 moment.
A blaze aloft at night sent a glimmer of hope flying past the desolation It ignites around Moonshine, so we can all dazzle at the suspended blue marble It twinkles again across the void for a blistering comeback, and a tactful splash Let’s keep the path glowing for these
US Artemis
Orion comes back home with dreams of a crewed Moon landing Like the skip of a stone on water, NASA’s crew-capable Artemis I Orion capsule incoming from the Moon performed an autonomously guided bounced reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on December 11, subsequently descending with aid from its mighty
Japan and Selene
Edit on May 29, 2023: The lander failed to touchdown. :( Today, December 11, private Japanese company ispace inc. launched its first ever Moon mission M1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. ispace’s robotic “Hakuto-R” spacecraft is now on a low-energy, fuel-efficient trajectory to the Moon, after four months of
Moon Monday
Orion blazes past the Moon to head back home Today, December 5, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft part of NASA’s Artemis I Moon mission precisely propelled itself on a trajectory to Earth, a minute after flying 127 kilometers above the Moon at its closest. Orion’s powerhouse European Service Module
Explore
Curating pretty sights of our Moon.
US Artemis
NASA’s crew-capable Orion spacecraft now orbiting the Moon In what seems to be a very successful Artemis I mission, NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft entered its desired Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around our Moon as of November 25. Upon completing about half an orbit on December 1 at an
I've been having some fun writing eerily reflective headlines on my Moon Monday newsletter about the clumsy progress of NASA’s SLS rocket that cost $23 billion. * NASA’s Moon rocket crawls to the launchpad * NASA’s Moon rocket just won’t move fast enough * The SLS rocket’
Share via Email →