In 2023, the Moon is where it’s at — so many rockets taking so many little orbiters and landers and rovers and boxes full of weird trinkets ... just in the coming few months! And that’s before you even count the missions aimed at pushing human footprints into the lunar dust for the first time since the early 70s. Everyone and their dog is sending stuff to the moon, and Emily is here with all the details of six missions set to launch in the coming Northern Spring-Summer launch season.

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

• Missions to the Moon — past, present and future

• JUICE

• Astrobiotic’s Mission One

• The Lunar X Prize

• Intuitive Machine’s IM-1 mission

• Chandrayaan 3

• Luna 25

• JAXA’s SLIM

• The Artemis program