India rightfully declared the day Chandrayaan-3 touched down at Shiv-Shakti Point as “National Space Day” for posterity (...) I’m excited to release a Cloud-optimized Lunar Data Explorer. More details about the portal and how to use it in my blog post below 👇

IM‑2 Athena: An Almost‑Successful South Polar Landing — Intuitive Machines Mission 2 My story on the recent Athena lunar mission moonandbeyond.blog/p/im-2-athen...

🚨I found the ill-fated @Int_Machines #IM2 #Athena lander using the #Chandrayaan2 OHRC and it shows some interesting patterns around the site where it hard landed. Exclusive story 👇 and I’ll share more detailed observations and my thoughts on this soon in my blog. (More pictures are storely below)

🚨 (New High res lunar images) On June 5, 2025, ispace_inc’s HAKUTO-R lander attempted a soft landing on the Moon in the Mare Frigoris region. Unfortunately, the mission ended in a crash landing during its final descent. (1/n)

🚨 (New High res lunar images) On June 5, 2025, ispace_inc’s HAKUTO-R lander attempted a soft landing on the Moon in the Mare Frigoris region. Unfortunately, the mission ended in a crash landing during its final descent. (1/n)

#NISAR separation from GSLV-F16 today. NASA confirms signal acquisition, solar panels deployed.

How it started vs How’s it going via x/ISROSpaceflight NASA 🤝 ISRO

With launch successful, ISRO waits until it starts receiving and processing 8 Terra Bytes of S-Band data and @nasajpl.bsky.social 35 Terra Bytes of L-Band data single a day! Now that’s wealth of global data

ISRO successfully launched and deployed NISAR in its intended orbit with a precision of ~2km to its desired placement.

A day after the launch of ispace 'RESILIENCE' ISRO seems to have already started terrain analysis on the landing location using the highest resolition camera circling around the moon right now, Chandrayaan 2. Image shows the latest released images of the target landing location of RESILIENCE.

The first German women in orbit, and the most exotic trajectory - except for those goimg to the Moon, of course - to date actually. Now let's see how much we're going to see and hear in the coming days; a ham radio contact is already planned for 7:28 UTC today: scicomm.xyz/@ARISS_Intl@...

Better and more accurate traverse maps of Pragyan rover of #Chandrayaan3 (check alt for sources and references)

#BGM1 bids à Dieu from Moon with one last message. "Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data, I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity's continued journey to the stars..." (1/3)

It’s been a year since started writing my blog here’s an update and some changes. Moved from @Ghost to @SubstackInc . Details in my blog 👇

this is kinda hard to tell with very limited public info. But, this is what I can interpret it. The Yaoki rover is completely hidden, but you can see the shadow as well as the illuminated regolith on the top left corner.

The tiny rover on board #IM2 Athena captured the broken leg of Athena (again!) and a mysterious debris off the lander. @yaoki_space has released the raw images - thanks! here's the processed image. #WhatYaokiSee Credits: Daimon/C.Tungathurthi

A more non-oblique look at #IM2 Athena. This view you can clearly see the shadow casted by Athena.

First images of @Int_Machines #IM2 Athena from @LRO_NASA Athena did land in a tiny crater than I originally imagined. Its more up north than the low illuminated areas I originally thought. Athena is at 84.7906° S, 29.1957°E but there is a minor small uncertainty in that location.

Here's my initial assessment of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission Athena Landing site. There are at least 2 significant PSR's (<1Km2) (PSR1, PSR2 ) within 3km radius around the planned -84.78°, 29.13°E target landing site. There are other smaller PSR's within the 3Km radius and the next...(1/3)

We made it to the Moon! Blue Ghost is currently orbiting our nearest celestial neighbor! 🌖 It’s truly unbelievable to see our lander finally in orbit around the thing I’ve been looking at in the night sky for 35 years. I can’t wait to get the chance to stick the landing in a few weeks!🧪

We just completed our Lunar Or it Insertion (LOI) maneuver! That means Blue Ghost is now orbiting another celestial body and has left our home forever. Good-bye Blue!🧪

Oh wow!

Really hope they can make it this time! Just like last IM1 I’ll be watching IM2 with same enthusiasm and my assents on the landing situations. Here’s the IM1 moonandbeyond.blog/im-1-landing...

Anyone in my timeline has worked with NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline in my timeline? I'm especially looking for support in creating Community Sensor Model for push broom sensor.

Parece ser que he montado la secuencia al revés 😓🥔 Aquí está en su correcto devenir #MARS EXPRESS TARGET NAME: #PHOBOS (#POTATO 1) HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA #HRSC ESA/j. Roger

Anyone in my timeline has worked with NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline in my timeline? I'm especially looking for support in creating Community Sensor Model for push broom sensor.

Exactly one year ago SLIM made its pin-pointing landing at an area close to Shioli crater. I wrote around that time how I used ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 OHRC to locate SLIM lander. Here's the blog post about it and the landing algo explained. #SLIM #JAXA moonandbeyond.blog/how-slim-jax...

Two Landers, One Mission: 2025 Lunar Exploration begins with the launch of Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispace's Mission 2, part of the HAKUTO-R Venture Moon program (...) First blog post of the year.

India has done it! #SpaDex mission was a complete success and It has become the 4th only country to achieve Space docking with Indigenously developed technology! 🇮🇳

First Lunar landers of 2025, Blue Ghost 1 and HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 on their way to Moon. In pics #BGM1 and #RESILIENCE deployments . Pic Credits: SpaceX

ISRO aborted its third #SpaDex attempt at 3m separation, just before the final docking. They have been brought back to a safe distance of around 4.5 Km now. No new dates has been announced.

#SoaDex crafts are 15m now, next up 3m then final docking. The final docking is expected to be in about an hour when it’s visible over India. There will not any live streaming but I expect a docking video on successful completion

#SpaDex update. Spacecrafts are about 230m apart and likely closing in for next stages of 15 and 3 meters before they start final docking sequence. Docking expected to happen tomorrow with very slim to no chance of live streaming. I expect an announcement with a docking video, well hopefully🤞🏻

🚨 #ISRO has new Chairman! Dr. V Narayanan, Distinguished Scientist currently serving as the Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), ISRO will take charge from the current Chairman S Somanath on Jan 14th, 2025.

🚨 Update as of 05 Jan 2025. Based on the latest TLE, Separation between SpaDex A and B is just about 2.3 km at UTC time: 2025-01-05T03:25 Both crafts are being prepped to be docked. Docking to be casted live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCs1...

wünsche euch allen einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ 🎆🎊 wish everyone a good start into the new year 2025 🎆🎊

This year is a great start for #VayuVani as the year comes to an end. I am busy working on the next - more stable, lighter and Mesh ready App. Here are more updates : the new application has been written from ground-up with fresh look and new framework

Launch success! 🧵

#SpaDex launch imminent now. Credits: ISRO

On 30.12, not so many days now. #ISRO will test its very own space docking experiment #SpaDeX - this demonstration is vital to prove its indigenously developed docking procedures for future #Chandrayaan4 , #ISRO Space station (BAS). Credits: X/ISROSpaceflight

My pick for the first :-)

Pleased to share the first article published on #VayuVani! Authored by x/@Giridhar_298 this article takes HamFest India, as a case study to highlight VayuVani as a “privacy-preserving” ground station. It’s a well-written and worth checking out. More updates coming soon.

Excellent article on NAT by Tailscale. #VayuVani mesh uses this peer to peer connectivity over web to achieve direct and remote access to your groundstation remotely and control it. Last night, several stations across the globe were tested. tailscale.com/blog/how-nat...

For folks who are in Hyderabad, India tomorrow. I’m talking about #VayuVani tomorrow. There’s gonna a live demo too. Reach me out if you have any questions. 14.12 14h IST

Amazing work @andrealuck.bsky.social 🙌 Love your work! Unfortunately moon isn’t such an eventful place 😄

Another sneak peak of #VayuVani - coming early next year. youtu.be/uf1ZIKZoEzg

Tomorrow, Dec. 12, at 4:15 UTC, the Lucy spacecraft will make its closest approach during its 2nd Earth Gravity Assist (EGA), just 350 km above the surface. If you are in the Hawaiian Islands, Atlantic Islands, or West Africa, you might be able to see the spacecraft. 1/7 🧵 #planetsci #scicomm 🧪

🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 Helfen Sie mir, die Leute zu erinnern! Es verbleiben noch 8h, um beim 2. Viertelfinale eures Lieblingsbildes der Planetenforschung abzustimmen, und das Rennen ist extrem knapp (nur 12 Stimmen zwischen dem 1. und 2. Platz). 🗳️ Abstimmung endet heute um 16 Uhr MEZ. bsky.app/profile/spac...

Saving this for my future use :-) Credits: X/Todd Master (@masteractual.bsky.social )

Great new Mastcam shots by Curiosity as she climbs west toward the broad saddle separating Gediz Vallis from its neighboring canyon on the slopes of Mount Sharp #Mars Dec. 5, 2024 (Sol 4384) 🧪🔭 Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk