India’s Chandrayaan program has been becoming incrementally indigenous. Being able to self plan and execute planetary missions can lead to uniquely impactful collaborations globally. In this month’s Indian Space Progress, I highlight two such cases of Chandrayaan aiding JAXA and NASA Artemis. 🌗🛰️
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Today’s Moon Monday is absolutely packed with updates and esoteric details on the latest lunar exploration developments: jatan.space/moon-mond… 🤓
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Had the opportunity to help explain a wider audience why the US White House recently asked NASA to create an independent time standard for the Moon. Got quoted on the Indian Express: indianexpress.com/article/e…
You can now browse my ongoing exhaustive coverage of NASA’s Artemis and CLPS programs to return to the Moon with humans and robots via dedicated pages on my blog:
Wrote about how NASA’s upcoming Lunar Terrain Vehicle for Artemis Moon missions will be a giant leap for rover-kind. 🚀🌗
Seriously, it’ll be far more capable than the rover driven by Apollo astronauts, and more sophisticated than even the modern Mars rovers.
There’s no good way to follow official space news from the China National Space Administration. And so I’ve created an RSS feed so you can easily follow such updates via a feed reader.
Want to read: Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle 📚
Space stuff I published last month
- Moon Monday 166: jatan.space/moon-mond…
- A follow-up on my critique of the IM-1 Moon mission’s narrative: jatan.space/im-1-crit…
- Moon Monday 167: jatan.space/moon-mond…
- Moon Monday 168: jatan.space/moon-mond…
- Welcome to the era of precision Moon landings: jatan.space/precision…
- Moon Monday 169: jatan.space/moon-mond…
- Indian Space Progress 13: jatan.space/indian-sp…
- How India’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter helped Japan nail SLIM’s Moon landing, and where Artemis comes in: jatan.space/chandraya…
- Indian Space Progress 14: jatan.space/indian-sp…
Always love it when there’s a science update from Artemis instead of just tech. NASA selects science instruments to be deployed on the Moon by Artemis III astronauts! jatan.space/moon-mond…
China signs the Artemis Accords: jatan.space/moon-mond…
How ISRO is building a reusable spaceplane: jatan.space/indian-sp…
My review of India’s Gaganyaan mission to send astronauts to space has been republished on Jeff Foust’s revered community blog The Space Review! www.thespacereview.com/article/4… ^_^
China doubled down on lunar infrastructure with the launch and orbital insertion of Queqiao 2: jatan.space/moon-mond…