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November 2023
Moon Monday #155: Prepping for PRIME-1 time, a Canadian capcom, a FLEXible rover, and more
With a launch in 2024, Intuitive Machines aims to deliver a NASA-funded drill and mass spectrometer at an optimum location on the Moon’s south pole to…
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #154: ispace Japan progresses toward another lunar landing with RESILIENCE, as must Starship in NASA’s road to Luna
Following ispace Japan’s failed touchdown attempt on the Moon with the M1 mission, the company has improved its lander’s hardware and software design…
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #153: On NASA’s plan to extract lunar oxygen, an Aussie seismometer on Firefly’s lunar lander, and more
NASA gets serious about extracting oxygen on the Moon, aiming to fund a mission payload that will demonstrate extracting oxygen from lunar soil and…
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #152: Covering India and Japan’s next Moonshot, South Korea’s lunar lander, Artemis updates, and more
The LUPEX rover won’t launch in 2025 or even 2026, which ISRO-JAXA aren’t clearly conveying.
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Jatan Mehta
October 2023
Moon Monday #151: On Astrobotic‘s first lunar landing, Chandrayaan 3 blasting away lunar material, an older & cooler Luna, and much more
If you’re reading this, you’re likely in a position of privilege. Please consider donating for the affected innocent kids in the Hamas-Israel war.
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #150: On China’s Queqiao 2 lunar mission, India’s Moonbound human spaceflight ambition, and more
Today marks 150 weekly editions of archiving and contextualizing global developments in the exploration of our Moon. It’s satiating to work on and write…
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Jatan Mehta
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Moon Monday #149: The latest updates on lunarbound hardware and missions
The US continues preparations for long-term activity at our Moon.
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Moon Monday #148: US lunar landers coming to life, China’s outlining of Chang’e 8, and more
Chang’e 8 will test technologies to extract and use local lunar resources like water ice for future mission needs, including for when Chinese crew begin…
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #147: The world keeps Luna in sight as Chandrayaan 3 observes Earth from lunar orbit
And China will indeed launch the Chang’e 6 farside sample return spacecraft and its supporting orbiter next year.
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Jatan Mehta
September 2023
Moon Monday #146: Lunar lander updates from NASA & LEAG, a rover from Lunar Outpost, geology training for astronauts, and more
Some notable updates from the annual meeting of the NASA-backed Lunar Exploration Analysis Group. The CLPS program to send payloads to the Moon aboard…
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Jatan Mehta
Moon Monday #145: From Starship to Firefly and Earth’s magnetotail to Germany, lunar exploration progress deepened last week
SpaceX performed Raptor engine firing tests to demonstrate that its Lunar Starship engines can ignite after long, cold coasting phases around the Moon…
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Jatan Mehta
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