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Jatan Mehta
Personal blog · jatan.spacescienceculture
Jatan Mehta's personal blog at jatan.space covers science and culture. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Launch of Chang'e 6, the instrumental 7, and claims that are questionable”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Launch HN thread as a space resource the commenter follows, alongside Orbital Index and a Payload Research newsletter. The comment does not discuss the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website & Blog of Jatan Mehta, a globally published & cited space writer. Read deep dives on global lunar and space exploration.
Most-linked posts?
- Launch of Chang'e 6, the instrumental 7, and claims that are questionable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-02
- Collection of Articles on Space Exploration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-02
- All the rovers heading to the Moon over the next 10 years2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
What Hacker News says?
Cheers! Thank you! https://orbitalindex.com/ is an amazing resource. https://jatan.space/ is another that I follow. Payload Research newsletter rocks too: https://mailchi.mp/payloadresearch/bezos-leaves-earth?e=e515... There's even a Slack bot to be notified of launches (most of which you don't hear about on the news): https://groundcontrolbot.space/
Comment linking /
on “Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations”Submitted How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon as a story · 172 points
HN discussionThank you! It’s part of the Chinese lunar special series I’ve been doing all month. Here’s the rest of the four: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-175/ https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-176/ https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-177/
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on “Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon”Submitted Gravity assist maneuvers in space as a story · 106 points
HN discussionIf anyone’s interested, I did a deep dive into the Chang’e 6 mission, including clarifying some misconceptions: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-174/
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on “Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon”Submitted Earth's mountains form in millions of years, Moon ones near instantaneously as a story · 90 points
HN discussionEven more concerning is community scientific documents researched specifically to serve NASA going offline in the name of DEI: https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nas...
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on “NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts”Submitted Why Explore the Moon as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the Moon race as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I made a curated Moon page for anyone to learn why we explore the Moon as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tiniest of impact craters as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpaceNews going paywalled, and broader disregard for archiving in journalism as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Moon is two-faced. Science missions unravel its layers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted China surfaces details of spacecraft for Moon landing by 2030 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a lunar landing mission "successful"? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted India’s Mars orbiter completes 6 years at the red planet. Where is the science? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why explore Venus, besides finding life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted India to launch a solar orbiter, a Venus orbiter and more in the next 5 years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why explore Saturn and its moons Titan and Enceladus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is pending for SpaceX Starship to be a Moonship for NASA astronauts? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything to know about NASA's Artemis in its chase of China to the Moon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the rovers heading to the Moon over the next 10 years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're building future technologies for the Moon without missed milestones as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Moon missions need their own Wikipedia and beyond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I write for you, not social media or SEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moon: Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China’s Chang'e 4 has been conducting radio astronomy from the Moon’s farside as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft revealed how Mars lost its atmosphere and water as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon as a story · 2 points
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