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NASA falters in communications yet again with Lunar Trailblazer failure | Moon Monday #265
Plus: Parallel developments show how open access NASA is when the agency is at its best.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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Everything you should know and track about NASA’s Apollo-style Artemis rejig in its chase of China to the Moon
NASA is also borrowing the “manned” from Apollo while at it. | Moon Monday #264
Indian Space
When ISRO loses a PSLV rocket, India loses a launchpad in the present and the future
To understand the pride and perils of the PSLV is to understand India’s launch infrastructure and its risky commonalities | Indian Space Progress #35-36
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How NASA has planned to keep Artemis II astronauts safe throughout their Moon mission
Moon Monday #260: Safety planning spans all phases and aspects of the crewed lunar mission, weaved into hardware, operations, and astronaut training. 🦺
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All the rovers heading to the Moon over the next 10 years | Moon Monday #256
As lunar exploration ramps up worldwide, our celestial companion is slated to be explored by increasingly advanced rovers of all sorts over the next 10 years. Not all of them will be successful, and so the reason for this post is not just to garner excitement about the possibilities of
Indian Space
A space program can only move as swiftly as its rockets. It’s India’s time to act on that.
Indian Space Progress #33: A review of the state of ISRO’s orbital launch vehicles reveals a bleak picture of ambitious goals sliding to the right—in stark contrast to the incessant chest thumping about efficiency.
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Lunar sample science updates straight from Hong Kong | Moon Monday #252
A volcano of new results which have improved our understanding of our cosmic companion.
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Moon Monday #251: Prepping to live on Luna via analogs on Earth
Plus mission updates and more memes.
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A giant leap in orbital imagery is what we need to realize advanced Moon missions
At over 1.6 petabytes, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission hosts by far the largest dataset from any planetary science spacecraft ever launched. LRO’s high-resolution lunar imagery and topographic data has been the bedrock for selecting landing sites of most Moon missions launched this century from around
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Moon Monday #248: The one that starts with a meme
China preps complex Chang’e 7 mission to study lunar water while US Artemis III rejigs.
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Shining light on solar activity and the Moon’s exosphere—a Diwali gift from Chandrayaan 2
Moon Monday #247 and Indian Space Progress #32
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Moon Monday #244: Towards lunar construction
Before we begin, a clarifying note about the title of the previous Moon Monday: An Amazon delivery for NASA’s VIPER rover? Well, I’ve received many emails saying how Amazon has a distinct space entity from Blue Origin. It’s fair to point that out but I do know
