Moon Monday. Moon Monday #225: Lots of global lunar mission updates 🌙. Key news of the month: China has achieved daytime Earth-Moon distance measurement wherein a 1.2-meter telescope reflected an ...

The ninth launch of SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket on May 29 failed as well—due to a fuel leak and loss of attitude control on the upper stage, and the anomalous engine re-lighting of the ...

My experience at the Galaxy Forum in China. I attended the 2024 Galaxy Forum in Wenchang, China last week, where I along with speakers from over 12 countries discussed global lunar exploration plans, ...

Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen ...

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 ...

SPADEX paves the way for Chandrayaan 4 lunar sample return. On January 16, India successfully docked and then controlled two twin satellites in circular low Earth orbit as part of mission SPADEX ...

While 2023 was an incredible year for ISRO in terms of execution of space missions and projects, 2024 was more about those successes giving the Indian government’s Department of Space (DOS) the ...

More Moon Left: Debut launch of China’s Long March 12 rocket; Right: The YF-100K engine, four of which power Long March 12’s core stage, as displayed at Airshow China 2018. Images: CCTV / 乘号同学 With ...

Meet RESILIENCE, ispace Japan’s second Moon mission An illustration of the Hakuto-R lunar lander and micro-rover. Image: ispace. Following ispace Japan’s failed touchdown attempt on the Moon with the ...

Our Moon may be one of the largest satellites in the Solar System but its exploration has been concentrated on select areas. One of these is low lunar orbit, where mapping spacecraft from three ...

Artemis updates The Orion capsule for the crewed Artemis II Moon mission being transported. Image: NASA / Kim Shiflett. On May 2, the Trump administration released its Presidential budget request for ...

More Chandrayaan updates The Chandrayaan 3 lander plus orbiter stack mounted in an acoustic chamber for pre-launch testing. Image: ISRO. Research results from other Chandrayaan 3 instruments should ...