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How we test spacecraft before launch
The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.
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Moon Monday #67: NASA Artemis concerns, ESA contracts Thales Alenia for future technologies, and more updates
I repeat: To minimize damage in the Ukraine crisis, identify something specific you can do to constructively contribute instead of hollow posting on social platforms. One option is to donate specifically to help people displaced from their homes. Highlight At a March 1 hearing, members of the U.S. Congress
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Moon Monday #66: ESA plans commercial Moon landings, initial NASA Artemis launches near, and more updates
If you’re reading this, take a moment to acknowledge the freedom that you have, and the privilege to indulge in the finer aspects of a topic not yet core to living itself. Just as I (must) acknowledge the sheer affordance of publishing this issue of Moon Monday, even if
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Moon Monday #65: ESA’s Moonlight infrastructure plans, Astrobotic’s progress on key NASA mission, Apollo 17 landing site in 3D, and more updates
Highlight This section is superseded by Moon Monday #98: ESA’s Moonlight plans forge forward In May 2021, ESA funded two consortia of companies to design and analyze feasibility of a “lunar communications and navigation service” by end of 2022 as part of the agency’s Moonlight initiative. Such a
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Moon Monday Issue #64
Where the Moon's water (mostly) doesn't come from; details on Japanese-Indian LUPEX rover mission; Mexico's rovers to be onboard Astrobotic's lunar lander this year, and more lunar updates.
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Moon Monday Issue #63
Contrast in Apollo and Artemis science; NASA Artemis I Moon mission delayed; Chandrayaan 3 lunar lander launches in August; Masten's lunar night survival technology, and more updates.
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NASA is funding a Moon mission to the magnetic swirl of Reiner Gamma
Intuitive Machines' third Moon landing mission will help us better understand the evolution of planetary surfaces across the solar system.
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Moon Monday Issue #62
Russia's Luna-25 Moon landing mission targeting July launch; Israel signs the Artemis Accords; the armada of radiation measuring instruments to be on the Gateway lunar station, and more lunar updates.
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Moon Monday Issue #61
NASA Artemis IV to advance lunar station assembly instead of continuing human Moon landings; a 'slushy magma' model for how our Moon formed; Chandrayaan 3 launches this year, and more lunar updates.
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Is life possible on rogue planets and moons?
A look at how starless free-floating worlds might represent the most common habitable real estate of the Universe.
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Moon Monday Issue #60
Concerning reports on NASA's Artemis plans; Russian Luna-25 Moon mission launch in July; studying the largest lunar lava channel; progress on Intuitive Machines' 1st Moon landing, and more updates.
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Gallery: Our Moon's lovely lava channels
A look at valleys and rilles that outrun the length of Earth's largest cities, and even span well over a hundred kilometers.