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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 ...

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 #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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Our Moon is a unique place to answer fundamental questions about our Solar System and also help enable sustained human presence in space. Over the last two to three years, I’ve been writing accessible ...