Following ispace Japan’s failed touchdown attempt on the Moon with the M1 mission, the company has improved its lander’s hardware and software design for the M2 mission in late 2024, called “RESILIENCE” to reflect the spirited reattempt. → https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-154

Even as we celebrate a successful safety test key to human spaceflight and ISRO’s newly announced ambition of sending an Indian to the Moon by 2040, having more than 200 million Indian school students learn about Chandrayaan 3 mixed with mythology is a worrying development. → https://blog.jatan.space/p/indian-space-issue-10

NASA gets serious about extracting oxygen on the Moon, aiming to fund a mission payload that will demonstrate extracting oxygen from lunar soil and rocks. It will feed forward into a pilot plant demonstration and then onto scalable, mature systems that will ultimately provide ample lunar oxygen for future astronauts and lunar bases part of the Artemis program. → https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-153

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When we do not accept loss of a single life in human spaceflight without far-reaching programmatic consequences or outright cancellations, and strive to avoid any severe injuries too, why should the rate of such harm be any higher for the people making human spaceflight happen? New blog post →

New blog post with some thoughts on misinformation.

It’s one thing to publish information on a website and let people consume it via organic shares, subscriptions, and (reverse) chronological feeds, but it’s completely another to instantly algorithmically amplify content created on a whim. → https://thoughts.jatan.space/p/instant-publishing-and-misinformation

The lunar water studying LUPEX rover won’t launch in 2025 or even 2026, which ISRO-JAXA aren’t clearly conveying: blog.jatan.space/p/moon-mo…

The LUPEX rover won’t launch in 2025 or even 2026, which ISRO-JAXA aren’t clearly conveying. → https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-152