Tracking and contextualizing India’s increasingly relevant capabilities in civil space exploration.
Indian Space
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
Indian Space
Indian Space Progress #34: An honest review of the country’s space activities this year
Indian Space
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.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday #247 and Indian Space Progress #32
Moon Monday
Plus Chandrayaan 3 research updates and more.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday #241 and Indian Space Progress #31
Indian Space
NISAR demonstrates peak peaceful uses of cutting-edge space technologies to solve humanity’s fundamental problems, and then some more.
Indian Space
A complicated question to answer for a controversial flight intended to advance India’s grand ambition of indigenously sending humans to space.
Articles
Plus more mission updates.
Moon Monday
Two announcements before we begin: 1. I’m honored to be moderating a fantastic panel on modern themes in global lunar exploration at the international Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) on Friday, May 9. If you’re attending GLEX in New Delhi, join us for the session. And, if you’
Indian Space
ISRO has been publishing monthly summaries of the varied activities and programs of India’s Department of Space (DOS) for years. Lately though, there have been consistent delays in publishing them by a month or two, and sometimes even more. The summaries have been trimmed too, now conveying less than
Moon Monday
Plus mission updates and some tangents.
