Spaceflight news

— Bill Nelson to be nominated as next NASA head (spacenews.com) (whitehouse.gov)

— Debris mayhem

— Space Force would hire deorbiting satellites (spacenews.com)

— Astroscale’s demo will launch on the GK Launch Services rideshare Soyuz (spacenews.com)

— NOAA-17 broke up (spacenews.com) (HT Mike Stewart: archive.org) 

Short & Sweet

— Chang’e 5 orbiter begins extended mission (spacenews.com)

— JWST on target for launch in October (spacenews.com) (theatlantic.com)

— Super Heavy is being stacked (teslarati.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Capella releases dish deployment video (cnbc.com) (directory.eoportal.org)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Emory S. via Discord: on-orbit servicing thoughts

This week in SF history

— 24 Mar, 2006. HiRISE takes its first images of Mars (space.com) (newscientist.com) (mars.nasa.gov)

— Next week (3/30 - 4/5) in 1983. A little deeper pool.