I now have a dedicated page to track Japanese lunar developments: https://jatan.space/tag/japan-and-selene/. This includes Moon exploration by JAXA as well as private companies like ispace.
🇯🇵 🚀 …………………… 🌙 https://jatan.space/tag/japan-and-selene/
Moon Monday is back after the holidays! And do I have a whole bunch of global mission updates and lunar developments for you: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-207/ 🚀🌗 https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-207/
"I think blogs are a powerful, resilient way to do independent journalism, which we direly need more of in today’s world. Denying their monetization means denying such possibilities."
– My take on (fairly) monetizing freely readable blogs
This is a great overview of the world’s space activities in 2024 by The Orbital Index.
[Sharing not just because it links to my roundups of lunar exploration and Indian space this year, and certainly not because they’re a Moon Monday sponsor, but simply because no one else has compiled this.] https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2025-01-01-Issue-299/
This is a great overview of [the world’s space activities in 2024](https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2025-01-01-Issue-299/](https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2025-01-01-Issue-299/) by The Orbital Index.
[Sharing not just because it links to my roundups of lunar exploration and Indian space this year, and ce... links.jatan.space https://links.jatan.space/2025/01/05/this-is-a-great-overview/
I’m delighted to welcome GalaxEye Space as the latest sponsor of my Indian Space Progress blog+newsletter! The latest edition is a year-end special, curating and contextualizing more than 40 Indian space developments across 2024: https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-23/ 🚀 https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-23/
Guess who’s the latest guest on the “People and Blogs” series by Manu: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-jatan-mehta https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-jatan-mehta
In 2024, ISRO et al. planned an ambitious next decade for Indian space. I made a curated linked list of over 40 such notable developments across orbital rockets, Moon missions, human spaceflight, commercial and private space, space sciences, and more: https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-23/ 🇮🇳🚀 https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-23/
"I suspect that it’s because many media outlets operate so opaquely like this on multiple fronts, and legacy publications think they’re above all, that people have lost trust in the media […]"
– The media and arbitrary ethics: https://journal.jatan.space/the-media-and-arbitrary-ethics/ https://journal.jatan.space/the-media-and-arbitrary-ethics/
Mission Director of India’s Chandrayaan 1 lunar orbiter has passed away https://jatan.space/interviewing-isro-chandrayaan-1-mission-director/
Would you consider time to publish a story or new development to be the most important aspect of journalism?
LED bulbs with built-in batteries are such a cool idea. It has helped me conveniently ignore Bangalore’s abrupt power cuts.
Poem: For every child https://journal.jatan.space/for-every-child
Amazing how in just a week China’s Chang’e 6 landed on the Moon’s farside, collected samples, made a rover image the lander, launched the samples in an ascender, which auto-docked with a lunar orbiter, and stashed the samples in an Earthbound capsule: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-179 🤯🚀🌗
Do you write a personal #newsletter? If so, what is it about? How did you decide to write it?
If you have a personal #blog but not a personal newsletter, why not?
The Space Review republished my article on challenges faced by Indian private rocket companies Agnikul and Skyroot: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4807/1
I’m truly excited to welcome Astrolab—maker or advanced lunar rovers—as the latest yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-179 🚀🌗
Moon Monday #179: Chang’e 6 samples in lunar orbit, a fiery Starship, a critique of CLPS, and more https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-179/
Enter the Chandrayaan coffee mug. Also from a47.in, who are sadly not sponsoring my exhaustive coverage of Chandrayaan Moon missions: https://jatan.space/tag/chandrayaan 🚀🌗
