Spaceflight news

— Near-miss of IRAS and GGSE-4 (c4isrnet.com) (spacenews.com) (kiro7.com) (space.com)

— Image of post-conjunction trails (twitter.com/juliancd38)

— NASA selects first commercial-destination module for ISS (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Voyager 2 malfunction (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)

— JWST’s launch date will likely slip again. (arstechnica.com)

— CHEOPS takes big step towards coming online and taking data (sci.esa.int)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Hi-Rise returns better imagery of the Schiaparelli crash (uahirise.org)

— Nick via email: skydiving parachutes have risers for reefing

This week in SF history

— February 5, 1947: the birth of Mary Cleave (wikipedia.org) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week in 1965: Sitting behind a boilerplate.