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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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On December 16, China successfully completed the Chang’e 5 mission to bring samples from the Moon, their first such endeavor. The last time lunar samples were fetched was when the Soviet Union sent ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The 382 kilograms of rock and soil samples brought by the Apollo missions to Earth attested to this. When they did ...

NASA is returning humans to the Moon later in the decade, but a fleet of agency-supported robotic spacecraft will touch down on lunar soil starting this year. With its $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar ...

A not-to-scale representation of ISRO’s Venus orbiter mission Shukrayaan. Credit: ISRO. Edit in October 2024: I’ve written a new, much longer article on ISRO’s Venus Orbiter after India approved the ...

Update: The article got a response from an ex-ISRO scientist to which I responded back. An artist’s impression of the Mangalyaan spacecraft. Credit: ISRO. September 24, 2020, marks six years since ...

Last week in lunar exploration was eventful and bittersweet to say the least, with multiple US spacecraft at the Moon. At over 2500 words, this Moon Monday edition unpacks a lot of context on ...

Moon Monday #230: China leaps again in its steady march to Luna while NASA’s progress on Artemis remains a mixed bag. A look at recent Chinese milestones in the build up to crewed lunar missions, ...