Spaceflight news

— Astra failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Mysterious Moon Masher (twitter.com/sciguyspace) (projectpluto.com) (projectpluto.com)

— James Webb is making adjustments (spacenews.com)

— Starship testing may move to Florida (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)

— BreakingTaps made an excellent video and 3D model of JWST’s hexapod actuator! (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  17 Feb, 2007. Launch of THEMIS (en.wikipedia.org) (ucla.edu)

— Constraints on the moon-bound trajectory were many (PDF: igpp.ucla.edu)

— Next week (2/22-2/28) in 1996: This is why we keep the mezuzah rolled up