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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 01:12:07 +0200</pubDate>
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<p>Here is an RSS feed generated by Substack, a service that I have very regularly seen recently due to everyone using it to create paid newsletters. I absolutely despise e-mail newsletters, but they dealt with that problem by adding an RSS 2.0 feed for each newsletter at <code>/feed<code>. As Substack really scares me due to this e-mail part, I have never tried paying for one of those newsletters, so I do not know if that RSS feed would be available too for paid subscribers, maybe with a token. That would make it a very rare kind of paid RSS feeds, something which I know exists as I have seen it in a specification for the PlayStation Portable but that I have never seen in the wild before.</p>
<p>This particular feed is a free newsletter about space exploration from an Indian writer. He initially had two newsletters, <em>Space Impact</em> and <em>Moon Monday</em>, but they got merged into one. I initially discovered this blog through <em>Moon Monday</em>, a weekly report of everything that is happening related to our exploration of the Moon. The goal of this weekly report is to show that exploring the Moon is still on the table and that we still have a lot to learn about it. Things happen quickly enough that posting once a week is indeed necessary.</p>
<p>The reporting is generally pretty comprehensive, despite a noticeable bias against <abbr title="Indian Space Research Organization">ISRO</abbr>; the author regularly criticizes his own country's space program as it is often opaque or makes bad decisions. I would like to see more of this critical thinking applied to all the other reported events (which are usually only shown as facts, without much commentary), as there are a lot of issues with Artemis, the American lunar base program, and with <abbr title="International Lunar Research Station">ILRS</abbr>, the Russian and Chinese project.</p>
<p>NASA going fully commercial on the base, all the way to calling for proposals on spacesuits, vehicles that transport astronauts between their training building to the launch pad, rovers, communication satellites, etc., and potentially allowing companies to mine the Moon, means NASA is bringing capitalism to space along with all its issues. Roscosmos' space budget is being slashed by Putin, because they did not achieve their set objectives in time—obviously, less budget will mean they can do more next year. And China's space program had a lot of issues, since rocket parts sometimes fall onto inhabitants (a huge no for absolutely everyone else), and most of what we know about the program comes from leaks.</p>
<p>But I would never have learned about all of these issues without having this blog as a starting point, teaching me about the current state of the space industry and scientific community, which have been completely transformed in the last few years. So if you are interested in learning more about space and what we're planning about it, I cannot recommend it enough.</p>
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