Moon Monday By Jatan Mehta | The world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering and contextualizing global lunar exploration updates, including plans to return humans this decade.

The Moon is an object that holds immense scientific value by itself. Its airless nature makes it a geological time capsule, allowing scientists to observe its features and infer events that took place ...

Articles EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus EnVision will tell us how Earth’s sister planet went from being habitable to hellish.

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 ...

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 ...

Articles India aims for the Moon with launch of Chandrayaan 3 The ambitious mission comes as India signs the US-led Artemis Accords to shape future global lunar activities.

The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

Moon Monday Moon Monday #219: Results from India’s Chandrayaan 3 experiment to benefit future missions eyeing lunar water 👀 🧊 🌘 ...

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 ...

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