By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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January 2023 Edit: I’ve covered post-launch updates on the CubeSats on Moon Monday #104, #105, and #108. NASA is all set to launch the SLS rocket on August 29, setting in motion the historic Artemis I mission to send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back. While
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Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen posts within this list, and will maintain the list itself for the convenience of readers, so make
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India’s nascent space science endeavors to get a much needed boost.
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Advancing our understanding of water across the Moon for exploration and science.
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Water ice on the lunar poles is central to exploration plans of space agencies worldwide.
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India’s first Moon mission discovered lunar water, and catalyzed plans by nations worldwide to further explore our cosmic neighbor.
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Our Solar System hosts a great diversity of moons. There’s our own Moon, whose airlessness makes it a natural geological time capsule of events in the early Solar System. There’s Saturn’s largest satellite Titan, which boasts an atmosphere and lakes of methane in eerie reminiscence to adolescent
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And a cool fact about the mission and the Internet.
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By the time Saturn becomes a pale hazy brown ringless orb, another planet will have adorned a cosmic crown of its own.
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At the ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Netherlands on June 15, 2022, NASA and ESA extended their space collaboration in several ways, including agreeing to cooperate on the Lunar Pathfinder orbiter mission, whose spacecraft is being built by UK’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) with input from anchor customer
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A flagship mission to the ice giants will forever change our understanding of the origin and evolution of our solar system, and those beyond.
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And how to treat sensationalist headlines.
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