Spaceflight News

— Ingenuity Down (HT deltaV: twitter.com/AndySaunders_1) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov)

— Slim Upside-Down (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)(global.jaxa.jp)

Short & Sweet

— Redwire to provide elements of Blue Origin’s space tug (spacenews.com)

— Two companies test reusable booster prototypes (space.com) (HT: Sam twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)

— ESA astronaut operates Earth-bound robots while on orbit (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Shuttle’s hatch lock (HT: deltaV, arstechnica.com) (spaceref.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 3, 1994: First launch of the H-II rocket (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/6 - 2/12) in 2000: First kleptoparasite in space