Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #48
Chang'e 5 samples confirm the Moon was volcanically active 2 billion years ago, NASA passes key milestones before Artemis I launch, Airbus & Mexico team up to extract lunar resources, & more updates.
By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans this decade.
Moon Monday
Chang'e 5 samples confirm the Moon was volcanically active 2 billion years ago, NASA passes key milestones before Artemis I launch, Airbus & Mexico team up to extract lunar resources, & more updates.
Moon Monday
NASA astronauts on Moon missions will wear commercial spacesuits, China building a super heavy-lift rocket to send humans to the Moon, mapping permanent lunar shadows with AI, and more lunar updates.
Moon Monday
NASA splits human exploration efforts to focus on sustainable human presence on the Moon, selects landing site for water-mapping mission, tests for Artemis I, plans Artemis VIII and beyond, and more.
Moon Monday
NASA progresses lander developments to regularly send humans to the Moon, ESA to buy a commercial lunar communications service, scientists bounce light off of a lunar orbiter, and more lunar updates.
Moon Monday
ISRO releases new Chandrayaan 2 orbiter documents, hardware for NASA's first crewed Artemis Moon landing takes shape, exploring the geologically rich Aristarchus region, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
NASA details plans for its next-generation rover to drive astronauts around the Moon, seeks science instruments for a mission to a unique volcanic site on the Moon, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
ispace Japan unveils next-gen rugged Moon lander, NASA's 1st Artemis Moon mission hardware almost assembled, ISRO Chandrayaan 2 orbiter science workshop, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
Blue Origin sues NASA, new precision landing technologies, Russian Moon lander delayed, NASA provides a camera for South Korean mission, the changing lunar surface, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
China to land humans on the Moon, NASA's first Artemis crewed landing delayed, India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter finds unambiguous signs of water in the Moon's sunlit areas, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
Finding ancient material dug out from the Moon's insides, 3D printing in space using lunar soil, ispace raises $46 million for future Moon missions, lunar water mystery and magnetic history, and more.
Moon Monday
SpaceX cleared to land NASA astronauts on the Moon as Amazon founder offers a $2 billion discount to NASA, insights into the Moon's ancient magma ocean and water, and lots of global lunar updates.
Moon Monday
Cereal box sized NASA spacecraft ready for lunar science and more, Lunar Outpost to test 4G/LTE on the Moon, a fascinating lunar hopper, Israeli oxygen extractor to be on Japan's lander, and more.
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