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 ...

Plus: Scientific archives as your Wild Card, a Draw Four for Boeing, UNO Reverse with Japan, and a stack of Artemis updates.

Moon Monday #218: A molten Moon, a date for the SPA, sunset for Blue Ghost as well as inclusive Artemis language, and more There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee ...

Unlike traditional missions, these CLPS missions are fully built, operated and managed by their companies, with minimal oversight from NASA. The agency only dictates preferences for the landing sites, ...

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 ...

When we think about craters on the Moon, we usually think of ones that can be seen with a telescope or in images sent by spacecraft around the Moon. But there are also ones we can only see with a ...

Seen here is the young, bright Aristarchus crater on the Moon about the size of a large city. The 40 kilometers diameter Aristarchus crater, as seen by Credit: NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ...

And more space updates from the country. The Chandrayaan 3 lander Vikram imaged by the mission’s rover Pragyan on August 30. The rover was about 15 meters away from the lander at the time. The ...

The Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft stack is seen here mounted in an acoustic chamber. The stack comprises the lander and an orbiter for co-flight until lunar orbit. Credit: ISRO The 1752-kilogram ...

Seen here is the spectacular Copernicus crater with its central peaks. They allow a peak (pun intended) into the lunar interior. Copernicus crater on the Moon with two central peaks. Credit: NASA ...

Welcome to the first edition of Indian Space Progress, the world’s only newsletter dedicated to covering the entire (civil) Indian space landscape—from space technology, launch & exploration to ...