Spaceflight News

— China’s Mars Sample Return open to International Cooperation (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Several Russian sats on the move (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (defence-blog.com)

— X-37B lands after record-breaking mission (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: leaked starship photos: (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com) (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Mar, 1980. Plesetsk launch pad disaster (plesetzk.ru) (russianspaceweb.com) (bbc.co.uk) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Tangent on GRAU indices (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/25 - 3/31) in 1972: Much closer, much easier, but 53 years late