The ninth launch of SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket on May 29 failed as well—due to a fuel leak and loss of attitude control on the upper stage, and the anomalous engine re-lighting of the ...

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 ...

Artemis and CLPS updates NASA’s VIPER lunar rover after passing thermal vacuum testing. Image: Anthony Colaprete / NASA. Marcia Smith reports that NASA is trying to launch the crewed Artemis II Moon ...

Artemis updates The Orion capsule for the crewed Artemis II Moon mission being transported. Image: NASA / Kim Shiflett. On May 2, the Trump administration released its Presidential budget request for ...

The Chandrayaan 3 lander on the Moon with its ChaSTE thermal probe deployed. Image: ISRO. The Chandrayaan 3 lander touted a thermal probe called ChaSTE developed jointly by two ISRO-affiliated ...

Firefly deserves an unusual kudos Blue Ghost Mission 1. Images: Firefly Aerospace. Following China’s lead in successful modern lunar surface missions, and joining Chandrayaan 3 as the only other such ...

Moon Monday #230: China leaps again in its steady march to Luna while NASA’s progress on Artemis remains a mixed bag. A look at recent Chinese milestones in the build up to crewed lunar missions, ...

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 ...

Screenshot of the inaccessible document archive on LEAG’s website as of February 10, 2025.. A whole host of documents presenting work and recommendations of US scientists and engineers in service of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...