A lot of interesting lunar science results have been published this year. Here’s a non-exhaustive but curated set of papers with a brief takeaway from each along with a representative graph or ...

I’m thrilled to welcome Astrolab as a continuing yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! California-based Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) is developing the large multi-purpose rovers of ...

A complicated question to answer for a controversial flight intended to advance India’s grand ambition of indigenously sending humans to space. Note: Shukla has become the first Indian national to ...

A note before we start: A warm welcome to the new wave of subscribers coming from Fraser Cain’s recommendation of my blog & newsletter on his YouTube channel. It made my day—especially because I’ve ...

A space mission is an immensely complex undertaking. Hundreds to thousands of experts from several distinct fields come together to build the thousands of parts and functions of a spacecraft. To ...

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 ...

When Mangalyaan entered orbit around Mars, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had boasted that at ~$70 million, the mission was cheaper than the Hollywood film Gravity, and even an auto rickshaw ...

The Artemis II SLS rocket core stage being transported towards NASA’s Pegasus ferry barge near the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility. Image: NASA / Eric Bordelon / Michael DeMocker A NASA chart from ...

This century has seen countries worldwide explore our Moon with new and varied technological capabilities. In recent years, Japan’s SLIM spacecraft achieved the world’s most precise robotic lunar ...

Before we begin, a note that my thoughts are with everyone affected by the fires in southern California as well as by last week’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang, China. One thing that is notable ...

Let’s start with the origin story of NISAR. Over a decade ago, NASA was formulating the L-band based DESDynI mission based on the US scientific community’s 2007 Decadal recommendation. ISRO’s S-band ...

Jeff Foust reports that Blue Origin indeed aims to launch its robotic Blue Moon Mark I lander later this year on a New Glenn rocket. The trip to the Moon will take seven days, and the landing site ...