Spaceflight news

— Perseverance update!

— Parachute message (twitter.com)

— MATLAB solution (HT trbinsc in the chat: cdn.discordapp.com)

— Make your own custom message! (sjwarner.github.io)

— Perseverance photos and video (planetary.org) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Opportunity visited its heat shield’s crash site (HT Mike Stewart spaceref.com)

— Dynetics completes preliminary design review for HLS lander (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)

— NASA’s human spaceflight program and safety (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/wapodavenport)

— We talked to Emory Stagmer about Starliner’s issues in episode 241 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

Short & Sweet

— Culprit identified for failed Falcon 9 booster landing (spacenews.com)

— Post-recording followup: sounds like this may have been an issue isolated to retrofire! (HT Mike Stewart: spacenews.com)

— Blockchain transaction tested on orbit (parabolicarc.com)

— Relativity is going reusable (cnbc.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Hartvik Line via email: Inspiration has 6-DOF sensing

— twitter.com/chairboy: The largest spacecraft ever (wikipedia.org)

This week in SF history

— 5 Mar, 1999. Launch of WIRE space telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spiedigitallibrary.org)

— Making the most of a bad situation (ucolick.org) (PDF: llis.nasa.gov)

— Next week (3/9 - 3/15) in 1986. The first stop on our roadtrip.