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 ...

The Chandrayaan 3 lander on the Moon with its ChaSTE thermal probe deployed. Image: ISRO Left: Temperature profiles measured by the ten ChaSTE sensors at different depths; Right: Structural diagram of ...

There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee or another mild drug of choice and let’s get started. 🤓 An artist's concept of our Moon shortly after its formation, with a ...

The Blue Ghost lander captured the roughly five-hour long March 14 total solar eclipse from the Moon. You can see the glowing ring of light from the third, latter picture emerging in earlier images in ...

Plus: Contextualizing the failure of Intuitive Machines’ second Moon mission and that of Lunar Trailblazer as grave losses for NASA. In the half a lunar day since its local morning landing, Firefly ...

Plus: Intuitive Machines and Lunar Trailblazer launch for Luna while KASA plans the same. And, maybe nobody should “dominate” space. Firefly conducted nearly 100 drop tests on lunar soil simulants to ...

Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed. How long do you think this hold is going to be? We don't have a lot of gas to play with," one ...

Welcome back to Moon Monday! 2024 was a happening year for global lunar exploration. We start this month with the impending launch of two Moon landers so 2025 seems thrilling already. Before diving ...

NASA’s VIPER lunar rover after acing thermal vacuum testing. Image: Anthony Colaprete / NASA The Planetary Society has been holding multiple meetings of lunar scientists with US congressional staff, ...

How will ISRO go from Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian on the Moon? Clarifying and laying down India’s plans for increasingly complex robotic lunar missions, where human spaceflight comes in, and what ...

To piece together this story, I spoke to experts from JAXA, NASA, and ISRO. When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM lander made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the Moon on January 19, most news ...