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Moon Monday #204: The one with no tying theme, like a VIPER-less Artemis
Read to the end to see a reader gift made of processed lunar regolith.
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By Jatan Mehta | The worldās only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans to our Moon this decade.
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Moon Monday #203: Artemis updates, China and Luna, ESA<>JAXA, and more
Thank you for having signed up for my no-award winning Moon Monday blog+newsletter! Its motivation was to exist because nothing like it did to capture the worldās march to the Moon. š If youāre one of the 8,000+ lunatics who enjoys this free curated community resource, you
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Moon Monday #202: A bao-burrito-bhel of global lunar updates
Dating farside volcanic samples, awaiting the next wave of landers, and disliking opaque orbital operations.
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Moon Monday #201: Scientists can now study exotic Changāe 6 lunar samples
Plus: New round of Changāe 5 sample studies, gifting part of the Moon, and Sino-US cooperation
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Moon Monday #200: Thank you, a crewed Chinese rover, Artemis updates, and more
Welcome to the 200th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter!Ā šš Iād like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: 1. An extensive 4-year archive of curated and contextualized global lunar exploration developments, with embedded links to everything. All editions are completely
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Moon Monday #199: Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon
Letās study Moonquakes to not let them shake a Moonbase.
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Moon Monday #198: Suit up to walk under Moonlight, and grab global mission updates
First look at the Artemis Moonwalking suit Following Chinaās unveiling of its lunar spacesuit last month, Axiom Space has revealedĀ the latest design of its AxEMU suitĀ that astronauts will wear on NASAāsĀ crewed Artemis IIIĀ lunar surface mission later this decade. The first-time unveiling of the suit
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Moon Monday #197: Starship Artemis, and lunar mission updates
NASAās road to the Moon inches through Starship SpaceXās fifth launch of its fully integrated Starship Super HeavyĀ rocket onĀ October 13 was aĀ resounding success, with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship second stage completing their flight as well as soft return objectives. With this
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Moon Monday #196: Confusion about lunar water and LUPEX, and papers plus mission updates
You can now follow my articles on some non-questionable social networks that alsoĀ federate (interoperate): Flipboard, Mastodon and Bluesky. The hunt for water on the Moon continues US researchers find that permanently shadowed regions up to 77Ā° latitudeāwhich is outside the Moonās south poleācould host surface and
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Moon Monday #195: Little LUNA on Earth, a Sino spacesuit, and communicating navcom
You know how I remarked in the previous Moon Monday about having two feature stories instead of one to adequately contextualize big new developments? Well, this weekās Moon Monday has three! For Europe, China, and the US. š Europeās new test facility brings more of those lunar vibes on
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Moon Monday #194: On the approval of Indiaās Chandrayaan 4 sample return mission, and first look at Changāe 6 samples
This weekās Moon Monday has not one but two feature stories! So much has been happening in lunar exploration this whole year that Iāve transitioned to writing deep dives more frequently so as to adequately capture and contextualize big updates. If you appreciate my efforts to bring you
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Moon Monday #193: Repurposing lunar missions to enable deep space exploration, and launches on the horizon
After a week full of chores, writing this weekās Moon Monday yesterday and today has made me feel alive again. Hope you enjoy this edition as thereās a lot to contextualize! š¤ Continuing the trend, China repurposes Changāe 6 orbiter module The Changāe 6 orbiter module, which
