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Tracking humanity's return to the Moon. Weekly briefings on Artemis II, III, IV. Built by @joachimgresslien.bsky.social (or whatever du heter på Bluesky).

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21h
Moon dust wore through Apollo's suits and degraded their seals, and Artemis has only begun to test the fixes The grains are glassy, sharp and electrically charged, and brushes that worked on Earth failed on the moon. Here is why the dust does what it does and how NASA plans to k
Moon dust wore through Apollo's suits and degraded their seals, and Artemis has only begun to test the fixes
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/09/2026
Starship reached orbit on its 14th flight, but the 2028 moon landing still waits on three unfinished steps SpaceX's ship circled Earth for the first time on Sept. 28 with an engine out. That settles one requirement for Artemis and leaves the rest of NASA's schedule with little m
Starship reached orbit on its 14th flight, but the 2028 moon landing still waits on three unfinished steps
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 24/09/2026
A moon suit's hardest job is getting rid of body heat, even next to craters colder than Pluto The lunar surface runs from hotter than boiling water to colder than Pluto. How does one suit keep an astronaut alive across both, and why is the heat inside it the bigger problem?
A moon suit's hardest job is getting rid of body heat, even next to craters colder than Pluto
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 10/09/2026
Artemis 3 astronauts won't enter Starship, even if Orion docks with it Can a moon-lander rehearsal prove enough if the crew never goes inside? The two commercial spacecraft in the mission plan will undergo different tests, with different implications for a lunar landing.
Artemis 3 astronauts won't enter Starship, even if Orion docks with it
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 03/09/2026
The rocket for NASA's next moon landing is ahead of schedule. The spacesuit is not. Technicians began bolting shuttle-flown engines into the Artemis 3 rocket this week, comfortably on pace. The suit astronauts would need to actually walk on the moon has a schedule of its own, an
The rocket for NASA's next moon landing is ahead of schedule. The spacesuit is not.
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/08/2026
SpaceX's $100 billion spaceport opens after the moon landing it would serve Starbase Louisiana would give Starship 10 pads and its own propellant plant, which is close to what one Artemis landing actually requires. So why is the first launch from it scheduled for 2029?
SpaceX's $100 billion spaceport opens after the moon landing it would serve
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21/08/2026
Did Trump just order a moon landing for 2028? Reported around the world as a directive to put Americans back on the lunar surface within two years, the memorandum he signed on Thursday never mentions 2028, and sets no landing date at all. So what did Trump actually sign, and is
Did Trump just order a moon landing for 2028?
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 12/08/2026
The 'ready-to-fly' hardware behind NASA's new Moon Base missions comes from a module that never flew Three new lunar demo missions inherit technology from a $1.9 billion space station module that NASA's own review board gave zero percent odds of finishing on schedule, before the
The 'ready-to-fly' hardware behind NASA's new Moon Base missions comes from a module that never flew
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 05/08/2026
Is NASA really losing the moon race to China? SpaceX says Starship flies again this month. Government auditors say the moon lander is more than a year late. Both arguments landed within two weeks of each other, so we lined the two countries' own dates up side by side.
Is NASA really losing the moon race to China?
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 28/07/2026
Too heavy, too complicated, too risky: the case against a crewed Starship Can Starship really carry people? Life support means mass, mass means propellant, and propellant means still more propellant. We go through the design, sorting the myths from the real obstacles.
Too heavy, too complicated, too risky: the case against a crewed Starship
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 25/07/2026
Starship finally flew, and came home floating Third try was the one. Twenty Starlink V3s deployed, and the first Ship ever to survive its own splashdown. NASA's Moon lander just had its best day, but it is still a long checklist away from Artemis IV.
Starship finally flew, and came home floating
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 24/07/2026
Starship slipped a day for a camera shot — new window tonight at 22:45 UTC Thursday's weather would have ruined the ground imagery of the heat shield during ascent. SpaceX chose to wait for clear skies.
Starship slipped a day for a camera shot — new window tonight at 22:45 UTC
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 23/07/2026
Starship tries again tonight — the window opens at 22:45 UTC Two Raptors swapped, one week lost. Third attempt for the flight carrying the first Starlink V3 satellites and a heat-shield camera experiment.
Starship tries again tonight — the window opens at 22:45 UTC
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 17/07/2026
Starship stopped itself on the pad — and the Moon lander's schedule felt it Four engines failed to light and the rocket shut down at ignition. The abort worked exactly as designed. The calendar is the part that hurts.
Starship stopped itself on the pad — and the Moon lander's schedule felt it
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 15/07/2026
Artemis III is stacking up at Kennedy — and the heat shield is the part to watch Boosters went up on July 11 and Orion's heat shield just went on. The shield was redesigned to fix the flaw that scarred Artemis I.
Artemis III is stacking up at Kennedy — and the heat shield is the part to watch
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 08/07/2026
NASA's first Moon Base landing has a lander that's ready — and a launch pad that isn't Endurance keeps passing its tests. The rocket meant to fly it blew up on the pad two days after the mission was announced.
NASA's first Moon Base landing has a lander that's ready — and a launch pad that isn't
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 01/07/2026
NASA just bought four more Moon deliveries — and the payload list reveals what it's worried about The newest CLPS awards are not glamorous. They are a repeatable safety-and-infrastructure package aimed at making south-pole landings routine.
NASA just bought four more Moon deliveries — and the payload list reveals what it's worried about
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 24/06/2026
SpaceX is finally public — and the Artemis math just got a lot louder An $85 billion IPO, a $20 billion bond two weeks later, and a $4 billion lunar lander contract that suddenly looks like a rounding error
SpaceX is finally public — and the Artemis math just got a lot louder
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 17/06/2026
NASA is shopping for a new ride for Blue Moon After the May 28 pad explosion at Cape Canaveral, NASA wants Blue Origin's lunar landers off New Glenn — and onto a rocket that can actually fly this year.
NASA is shopping for a new ride for Blue Moon
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 17/06/2026
NASA is shopping for a new ride for Blue Moon After the May 28 pad explosion at Cape Canaveral, NASA wants Blue Origin's lunar landers off New Glenn — and onto a rocket that can actually fly this year.
NASA is shopping for a new ride for Blue Moon
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 09/06/2026
Artemis III crew named: Bresnik commands, Parmitano is first European Four astronauts assigned to the 2027 docking rehearsal that has to clear the path for the 2028 landing.
Artemis III crew named: Bresnik commands, Parmitano is first European
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 27/05/2026
Tuesday's news conference turned the Moon Base from vision into a contract schedule. The first three missions launch this year. ↓
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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 20/05/2026
A closer look at the new spacer, the LEO architecture, and what NASA still has to decide before crews start training. ↓
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