Spaceflight news

— JWST deployment

— A detailed timeline is available from Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org)

— Hexapod actuators (PDF: esmats.eu)

— A photo of an early actuator development unit (PDF, p2: sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)

Short & Sweet

— Chang’e 5 identifies water on the moon (space.com) (science.org)

— Perseverance rover prepares to clear blocked sampling tube (nasa.gov)

— SLS hoping for March launch (spacenews.com)

— Orbit Fab signs deal to provide on-orbit fueling for Astroscale (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Follow up on that moon rock (twitter.com/AJ_FI)

This week in Spaceflight history

— January 20 1978, Maiden flight of the Progress spacecraft (wiki.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (spaceref.com)

— Next week (1/25 - 1/31) in 1995. Get me my briefcase.