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WEBSep 2, 2024 · Indian Space Progress #18: A flat budget, increasing mass to orbit, continuing Chandrayaan, and pushes for private space. I hope you enjoy this bird’s-eye view of all major developments in India’s space trajectory over the last two months! 🚀 India’s space budget for FY2024 Despite the many highs of 2023 for Indian space, the FY2024 ...
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WEBHi, I’m Jatan Mehta Me, speaking at the European Space Agency, ESTEC in Netherlands. → Independent Space Writer, Author of Moon Monday → Journalist with articles published globally → Creator of Indian Space Progress → Invited Speaker at conferences, podcasts, and more → Editorial Consultant for space organizations
Welcome to the era of precision Moon landings - Jatan’s Space
WEBMar 13, 2024 · Moon Monday #190: On the varied importance of the Chandrayaan 3 rover, and more mission updates. Grab some tea, coffee, or beverage of your choice because this week’s Moon Monday is a sci-tech deep dive! 🌝 Chandrayaan 3 contributes to learning our Moon’s origin and evolution The first ever ground-based measurements of high-latitude lunar soil and rocks made by the Chandrayaan 3 rover ...
Jatan Mehta - Jatan’s Space
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Moon Monday. Moon Monday #190: On the varied importance of the Chandrayaan 3 rover, and more mission updates. Grab some tea, coffee, or beverage of your choice because this week’s Moon Monday is a sci-tech deep dive! 🌝 Chandrayaan 3 contributes to learning our Moon’s origin and evolution The first ever ground-based measurements of high-latitude lunar soil and rocks made by the ...
Explore our Moon! - Jatan’s Space
WEBJul 20, 2023 — 5 min read. Our Moon is a unique place to answer fundamental questions about our Solar System and also help enable sustained human presence in space. Over the last two to three years, I’ve been writing accessible stories about the Moon’s said value for as broad an audience as I can. I’ve placed all that work together in ...
Indian Space Progress #18: A flat budget, increasing mass to orbit ...
WEBJul 26, 2024 · By combining optical, radar, neutron, and other data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), complemented by the ISRO Chandrayaan 2 orbiter’s dual-frequency radar observations, a new study led by several Indian scientists estimates that the Moon’s poles host five to eight times more water ice 1 …
Indian Space Progress #14: On ISRO landing a spaceplane, and ...
WEBMar 30, 2024 · More Indian space updates Firing of the Kalam-250 second stage rocket motor (video) part of the upcoming orbital launch vehicle Vikram-I. Image: SkyrootThe new INSAT-3DS meteorological satellite, which ISRO launched on February 17, has begun imaging Earth.; US-based Loft Orbital and India-based SkyServe have partnered to utilize the former’s YAM-6 satellite—launched on a Falcon 9 ...
I’d like to share with you highlights from my space endeavors in …
WEBDec 28, 2023 · Dear readers, In my lifelong mission to write & blog about the exploration of space and our Moon, 2023 turned out to be satiatingly eventful. Here are just some highlights that I’d like to share with you all. I published 50 editions of Moon Monday.The newsletter remains the only one dedicated to covering lunar exploration developments from around the world.
My best space writings from 2022
WEBDec 31, 2022 · Dear readers, In my lifelong mission to write about the exploration of space and our Moon, 2022 turned out to be very productive and satiating. I published 51 editions of my one-of-a-kind Moon Monday newsletter, and wrote 25+ articles on space exploration at large. I also took a major step forward in sustaining Moon Monday, thanks to the generous, no-strings-attached sponsorship from Epsilon3 ...
Indian Space Progress #15: An ISRO-JAXA collaboration for the …
WEBApr 30, 2024 · More Indian Space ISRO slightly delayed three launches in 2023 to avoid an orbital collision. Source: ISRO. Doubling down on space sustainability goals, ISRO Chief S. Somanath announced on April 16 at the annual meet of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) that India wants to achieve debris-free [new] space missions by 2030. . Relatedly, ISRO released its 2023 space ...