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 ...

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 ...

The Chandrayaan 3 lander on the Moon with its ChaSTE thermal probe deployed. Image: ISRO. The Chandrayaan 3 lander touted a thermal probe called ChaSTE developed jointly by two ISRO-affiliated ...

Moon Monday #228: The need for resilience in private lunar landing missions through expansive and collaborative testing. ispace Japan’s second Moon lander RESILIENCE launched in January with the aim ...

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 ...

Screenshot of the inaccessible document archive on LEAG’s website as of February 10, 2025.. A whole host of documents presenting work and recommendations of US scientists and engineers in service of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hello from China! I’m at the four-day 2024 international Galaxy Forum, where I along with speakers from over 12 countries are discussing global plans on lunar exploration, science from the Moon, and ...