Theoretical and computational models of highly energetic solar storms have predicted for more than a decade that the density of the Moon’s nearside exosphere increases by at least ten times during ...
Before we begin, a clarifying note about the title of the previous Moon Monday: An Amazon delivery for NASA’s VIPER rover? Well, I’ve received many emails saying how Amazon has a distinct space entity ...
Illustration showing Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark I lander having deployed NASA’s VIPER rover on the Moon’s south pole. Image: Blue Origin Notably, the announcement also states that NASA will itself ...
NASA’s crewed Artemis II circumlunar mission targeting launch in early 2026 will see astronauts participate in multiple advanced health monitoring experiments. Given the scarcity of data on human ...
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 ...
It’s been a year since the approval of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 4 mission, and ISRO has not yet provided an update on if the preliminary design review (PDR) to finalize the mission design has been completed ...
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 ...
Our Earth and Moon as captured from beyond the lunar farside by China’s Chang’e 5 T1 test spacecraft in 2014. Image: CAST Very few people know that our serene, silvery cosmic companion’s value lies ...
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 ...
On August 6, China successfully conducted a terrestrially simulated lunar landing and takeoff test using a full-scale mockup of its upcoming ~26,000-kilogram crewed Moon lander named Lanyue—which ...
It was eight years ago that I wrote a guide on how to correctly and reliably install NASA’s popular HEASoft software on Linux, a software which is extensively used in high energy Astrophysics research ...
The eight high-level tests of the SLS rocket’s ground systems and associated launch infrastructure which NASA completed ahead of the upcoming crewed Artemis II mission. Image: NASA PlanetVac in action ...
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