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Space just desolate… and yet humans launch hope to explore some more On our Moon from where the Sun never shines, a new era will dawn. Poem notes: 1. There’s nothing quite as bold and beautiful as committing to venturing the brutal colossal desolation that is space. Every (civil)
Moon Monday
Plus mission updates.
Articles
A review of upcoming and past lunar missions of this decade shows a wide gap between notions of technological progress versus achieved reality.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday #241 and Indian Space Progress #31
Moon Monday
Plus mission updates.
Moon Monday
And how science does not exist in a (lunar) vacuum.
Moon Monday
Plus Artemis updates.
Indian Space
NISAR demonstrates peak peaceful uses of cutting-edge space technologies to solve humanity’s fundamental problems, and then some more.
Moon Monday
Reviewing all recent advances from China as it prepares to perform crewed Moon missions. Plus more mission updates.
Moon Monday
I’m thrilled to welcome Astrolab as a continuing yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! California-based Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) is developing the large multi-purpose rovers of FLEX and FLIP for advanced exploration of our Moon this decade and next. Through FLEX, Astrolab leads one of
Articles
A look at the armada of robotic landers NASA is riding to the Moon this decade.
It was eight years ago that I wrote a guide on how to correctly and reliably install NASA’s popular HEASoft software on Linux, a software which is extensively used in high energy Astrophysics research. I wrote it because the official guides on NASA HEASoft’s website were failing to
