Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #40
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.
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
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.
Moon Monday
NASA readies Orion for flight around the Moon, ispace begins making its lunar lander, China distributes Chang'e 5 samples, Astrobotic advances its autonomous rover, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
NASA's mega Moon rocket stands tall, Northrop Grumman to build key module of 1st lunar space station, SpaceIL raises $70M for Beresheet 2, the boldest robotic Moon endeavor, and more lunar updates.
Moon Monday
NASA envisions commercializing sending people to the Moon, Goonhilly to provide communications for Intuitive Machines' Moon missions, China's Yutu-2 rover finds buried crater on the farside, and more.
Moon Monday
France to provide cameras for UAE's Rashid rover, Intuitive Machines to deploy a communications satellite in lunar orbit, ESA instrument to extract water from Moon rocks, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
China and Russia reveal Moonbase plans, NASA's SLS stacking up for launch, Japan passes space resources bill, Masten teases a Moon water miner, better seeing permanently shadowed regions, and more.
Moon Monday
NASA missions to the Moon's farside and an enigmatic swirl, France expresses interest in Chinese-Russian lunar science base, 4.2 billion years old Apollo samples, Yutu-2 radar results, and more.
Moon Monday
New Zealand signs Artemis Accords, NASA begins stacking SLS for its 1st launch, Canada outs bid requests for its Moon rover, favorable water-rich sites on the lunar poles, and more lunar developments.
Moon Monday
ispace's 2022 Moon landing mission to carry international payloads, South Korea joins NASA Artemis, Canada to send a lunar rover by 2025, Theia's remains on Earth, and more lunar developments.
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