I quit my job last year to become an independent space exploration writer and was happy to have achieved it, culminating the phase by becoming a Contributing Editor for The Planetary Society! Soon after in the same year, I started writing a one-of-a-kind Moon exploration newsletter which has proved more…

European planetary missions seem to be far less popular than ones by NASA, or even Chinese missions for that matter. This is despite the fact that the European Space Agency (ESA) has launched some of the most interesting robotic explorers in the solar system. A part of the reason most…

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My latest article for The Planetary Society is on NASA’s upcoming Venus mapper VERITAS! planetary.org/space-missions/veritas 🔥

Was Venus really covered in oceans? What made it a living hell that can melt lead and spacecraft? Are its volcanoes active? VERITAS will find out.

Readers of Moon Monday 🌗 , I want to hear your feedback on how I could better my Moon exploration newsletter for the coming year of Moon missions launching from across the globe. Please take this 2-minute anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/dcWdHckEXi17cBS46

So excited to say that my unique newsletter Moon Monday has completed a year of covering global lunar exploration and science updates. And I haven’t missed a single week! 🎉

Here is the latest roundup of Moon updates: blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-52 🌗

To the Moon. 🚀

Here’s why you shouldn’t link to Instagram anything anywhere. Instagram is a threat to the open Web: reflections.jatan.space/p/say-no-…

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Behind the scenes, a Telegram bot is autosharing the articles via my blog’s RSS feed. Neat.