Jatan Mehta @uncertainquark@writing.exchange

Defend your planet: https://www.planetary.org/the-downlink/defend-your-planet

LightSail 2 getting lower as it completes third year in space: https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightsail-2-third-anniversary-update

Rings in our Solar System can come and go: https://blog.jatan.space/p/exploring-the-changing-rings-of-our-solar-system

Issue No. 173: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-06-22-Issue-173/

How do planets get rings?: https://www.planetary.org/articles/how-do-planets-get-rings

Updates from our Shoemaker NEO Grant winners: https://www.planetary.org/articles/updates-from-our-shoemaker-neo-grant-winners

Moon Monday #82: Growing NASA-ESA synergy, lunar Starship, wireless power on the Moon, and more updates: https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-82

If you like my independent writing on space and Moon exploration as well as thoughtful blogging, you can now support all my work for just $3/month or $25/year: https://jatan.space/support
Everything I publish is free, with no ads.

My post criticizing Patreon is on the front page of Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31788923
Lots of creators agreeing, and many interesting discussions on what might be happening on the infrastructure end behind the scenes.

Patreon cuts deep inside creator's pockets: https://thoughts.jatan.space/p/patreon-cuts-deep

NASA and ESA are collaborating to better explore our Moon with Lunar Pathfinder: https://blog.jatan.space/p/nasa-esa-collaborate-on-lunar-pathfinder

Persevering through it all: https://www.planetary.org/the-downlink/persevering-through-it-all

A joint-letter in support of NEO Surveyor: https://www.planetary.org/articles/tps-nss-joint-letter-supporting-neo-surveyor

Why can't the ISS operate forever?: https://www.planetary.org/articles/why-international-space-station-cant-operate-forever

Hardware for crewed Moon missions launching later this decade is coming along piece by piece, and it’s so exciting! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀 https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-81#%C2%A7future-moon-mission-hardware-coming-to-life

Moon Monday #81: Lunar missions on the verge of launching and future hardware coming to life https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-81

My articles on blogging https://thoughts.jatan.space/p/thoughts-on-blogging

Introducing a network for thoughtful conversations https://thoughts.jatan.space/p/introducing-linktalk

Every Monday for the last 19 months, I’ve been tracking the progress of NASA’s plans to return humans to the Moon on my one-of-a-kind newsletter https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday. It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments! Thoughts?

First steps and big leaps: https://www.planetary.org/the-downlink/first-steps-and-big-leaps