A Dear John for dearMoon
Yusaku Maezawa has given up on his plan to orbit the Moon with a crew of creatives in SpaceX’s Starship.
Cislunar
Stories about the growing number of activities around the Moon.
NASA’s Moon Plans Are In Elon’s Hands
“If we land, it is dependent on SpaceX having their [Starship] lander ready.”
ispace Plots Lunar Data Business, Borrows $45M for Lander Missions
Other Moon-focused companies, including Lockheed Martin subsidiary Crescent and Intuitive Machines, are also planning satellite networks around Earth’s favorite satellite.
Sweden and Switzerland Sign the Artemis Accords
NASA has been building up its team of responsible space actors, and this week, it brought on two new recruits.
Japanese PM Inks Deal to Join Artemis Moon Return
Two Japanese astronauts will travel to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program, potentially becoming the first non-Americans to set foot on the lunar surface.
DARPA Funds Pie-In-the-Sky Moon Train Study
Out: the train to space. In: the inter-Moon-base express.
He-3’s All That for Interlune
He-3 is mainly used in security and medical sensors to detect radiation, but it could theoretically be used as fuel for a nuclear fusion power plant.
Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Saying Goodbye to IM-1
By the time you read this, the sun will have set on Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander.
IM-1 Is Sideways, But We’ve All Been There
CEO Steve Altemus reports that the payloads on board are still functional.
How IM-1 Landed Softly On The Moon
Intuitive Machines ($LUNR) became the first private organization to land on the Moon.
Lonestar Data Holdings Performs Data Demo in Cislunar Space
One company is on the way to proving that the same things that make the Moon inhospitable to people—cold, barren, hard to reach—make it a perfect setting for long-term, secure data storage.
Q3 Earnings Roundup: AST SpaceMobile, Terran Orbital, Intuitive Machines, Momentus
We’re deep into earnings season, and the space SPACs have been reporting all week. Here’s our roundup of the highlights.