Left: ispace Japan’s second Moon lander, named RESILIENCE, at JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center pre-launch. Also seen integrated into the lander is ispace’s first rover TENACIOUS; Right: Our Earth as imaged ...

Many thanks to Catalyx Space and Arun Raghavan for sponsoring this week’s Moon Monday! Today’s Moon Monday involved a lot of work to capture adequate context for each of NASA’s proposed changes to its ...

Our Moon may be one of the largest satellites in the Solar System but its exploration has been concentrated on select areas. One of these is low lunar orbit, where mapping spacecraft from three ...

👀 🧊 🌘More mission updates The SLS rocket core stage and twin boosters inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Image: NASA / Frank Michaux On March 23, technicians at NASA joined the twin solid ...

The Sun sets for Blue Ghost A beautiful lunar sunset captured by the Blue Ghost lander, with our Earth and Venus seen near the horizon. Image: Firefly Aerospace Capturing a lunar sunset and associated ...

Guides If nasaspaceflight.com and its forum are blocked for you too, here’s how to access them ...

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 ...

A whole host of documents presenting work and recommendations of US scientists and engineers in service of NASA’s Moon exploration goals have gone missing from the website of the agency-backed Lunar ...

Cool new projects; same old budget An LVM3 rocket hosting the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the second launchpad at India’s Sriharikota spaceport. Image: ISRO On January 16, the Indian Government Union ...

SPADEX paves the way for Chandrayaan 4 lunar sample return On January 16, India successfully docked and then controlled two twin satellites in circular low Earth orbit as part of mission SPADEX (spa ...

While 2023 was an incredible year for ISRO in terms of execution of space missions and projects, 2024 was more about those successes giving the Indian government’s Department of Space (DOS) the ...

Many thanks to Astrolab, Louis Burtz, Gurbir Singh and Frank Genin for sponsoring this week’s Moon Monday! If you’re loving this 2024 global lunar tour, share it with other space buffs by grabbing ...