Spaceflight news

— Perseverance has landed! (arstechnica.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (uahirise.org)

— HiRISE managed to snap a photo of Perseverance under its parachute (uahirise.org) (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/HiRISE)

— Interview with Ingenuity’s Operations Lead (HT Colin-in-the-chat: spectrum.ieee.org)

— Ingenuity runs open source control software called f’ (github.com/nasa)

Short & Sweet

— China prepares to launch first segment of space station (spacenews.com)

— SpaceX demonstrates more data collection leads to more system knowledge (youtube.com)

— Test flight of Starliner slips to April (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 1 March 2002: Launch of the world’s largest civilian earth observation satellite (earth.esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Succeeded European Remote Sensing Satellites (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int)

— Eventually replaced by Sentinel (wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/2 - 3/8) in 1999: Once you pop, the fun don’t start.