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ispace Japan’s second Moon lander RESILIENCE launched in January with the aim of a Moon landing. But just like its predecessor Hakuto-R’s fate about two years ago, RESILIENCE crashed into the Moon ...
The situation has compelled their three space agencies—NASA, ISRO, and KARI—to coordinate and share precise trajectory information of the lunar satellites with each other, and even conduct diversion ...
Key news of the month: China has achieved daytime Earth-Moon distance measurement wherein a 1.2-meter telescope reflected an infrared laser off of a small retroreflector on the 61-kilogram Tiandu 1 ...
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 ...
Moon Monday Moon Monday #220: Lunar science galore from the Chandrayaans Plus mission updates and some tangents.
Moon Monday Moon Monday #219: Results from India’s Chandrayaan 3 experiment to benefit future missions eyeing lunar water 👀 🧊 🌘 ...
The Sun sets for Blue Ghost A beautiful lunar sunset captured by the Blue Ghost lander, with our Earth and Venus seen near the horizon. Image: Firefly Aerospace Capturing a lunar sunset and associated ...
Guides If nasaspaceflight.com and its forum are blocked for you too, here’s how to access them ...
I’m thrilled to share that over and above my flagship Moon Monday blog+newsletter, I’ve joined the Open Lunar Foundation as their ‘Science Communications Lead’. In that role, I’ll help communicate ...
A whole host of documents presenting work and recommendations of US scientists and engineers in service of NASA’s Moon exploration goals have gone missing from the website of the agency-backed Lunar ...
This edition marks two years of publishing the monthly Indian Space Progress blog+newsletter. I started it with the goal of trying to compile, capture, and globally contextualize true trajectories of ...
Moon Monday Moon Monday #209: Let’s be high on launch and low on provocation Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed.