Spaceflight news

— Ukrainian startup looks at in-orbit servicing (spacenews.com) (kursorbital.com)

— Northrup’s MEV-2 prepares for docking attempt with geostationary satellite (spacenews.com)

— Market analysis for on-orbit service demand by Northern Sky Research (nsr.com)

— CONFERS is working on docking standards (satelliteconfers.org)

Short & Sweet

— HST back online after software glitch (spacenews.com)

— Second hot fire of SLS core scheduled for Thursday (americaspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

— China successfully launches Long March 7A (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 21 Mar, 2007: Second launch of Falcon 1 (wikipedia.org) (space.com) (amazon.com)

— The second stage engine bell scraped the interstage during separation (youtube.com)

— Next week (3/23 - 3/29) in 2006: First sweep of a dusty surface