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
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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
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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
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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
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Curating pretty sights of our Moon.
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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’
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Artemis I launches the world’s ambitions and hopes for the Moon In a collective sigh of relief felt across the global space community, NASA finally launched the 1.6-million-kilogram SLS rocket on November 16, perfectly per the post-liftoff timeline, setting in motion the historic Artemis I mission to send
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CAPSTONE enters lunar orbit On November 13, the NASA-funded and Advanced Space-led CAPSTONE spacecraft successfully executed a 16-minute burn of 0.44 Newtons at the right time as it flew by the Moon and entered into its intended unique Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit. This is the same orbit that the NASA-led
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I was invited by the Moon Village Association India to give a talk on the 2022 International Moon Day. Topics discussed in From Chandrayaan to Artemis: (In addition to the video timestamps below, find links to several articles for more information) * 2:37 - Chandrayaan 1 * 7:55 - Renewed
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The last two decades mark the beginning of a true return to exploring our Moon. The 2000s saw Europe, Japan, China and India launch their successful lunar orbiters SMART-1, SELENE, Chang’e 1 and Chandrayaan 1 respectively. The 2010s can be defined by roller coaster Moon landing attempts, with China
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A public service announcement since Moon Monday is my most read space (pun intended): With everything happening at Twitter, many people are flocking to Mastodon and/or other platforms. As an open Web enthusiast who is on Mastodon and similar socials since years, I think that’s great but misses
