Mass Value Report for August 2023

Mass to low Earth orbit only gets you so far. We want to get mass to somewhere interesting - starting with the Moon.

In the last month, there have been two attempts at landing on the Moon; the failed Russian Luna 25 mission, and the successful Indian Chandrayaan 3 mission. This landing is the first by a nation other than China this century, and many other attempts have failed (including a prior one by India).

There are soon to be many more missions to the surface of t…