Spaceflight News

— Stoke Space prepares for hopper landing trial (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/stoke_space)  (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA announces $1B deorbit tug for ISS (spacenews.com)

— Virgin Orbit’s operational pause (spacenews.com)

— Axiom reveals the Artemis EVA suit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 24, 2006: The first launch of Falcon 1 (space.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/28 - 4/3) in 1993. Low-power mode.

Spaceflight News

— VV22 investigation (HT Sam: esa.int) (spacenews.com) (arianespace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— IBEX mission overcomes computer glitch (space.com)

— ISS dodges a satellite (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: H3’s first flight results (nasaspaceflight.com)

Data Relay: STS-400

— STS-400 (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Two gap fillers removed during EVA on STS-114 (spaceflightnow.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 14 March 1986: Giotto flies past 1P/Halley. (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Thanks to Peter for suggesting this topic (twitter.com/PeterMcMally)

— Next week (3/21 - 3/27) in 2006: It’s fine. It’s in what we call a “storage orbit”

Spaceflight News

— TROPICS-1 mishap investigation (HT Mike Stewart: astra.com)

Short & Sweet

— HST impacted by satellite trails (nature.com)

— China’s secret spacewalk (spacenews.com)

Interview -- D. Geoff Carter, PE

— RollAide.com

— artemis-space.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Mar 9, 2008: The launch of the first ATV: Jules Verne (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: esa.int) (PDF: esa.int)

— Next week (3/14 - 3/20) in 1986: Slap a renaissance painter.

Spaceflight News

— Starship’s near future (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

Short & Sweet

— NASA planning for first Gateway logistics mission (spacenews.com)

— Beetlesat successfully deploys expandable antenna on orbit (spaceref.com) (beetlesat.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 2, 1995, Launch of STS-67, Endeavour (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceline.org) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (3/7 - 3/13) in 2008: 20 million leagues above the sea (level)

Spaceflight News

— Soyuz MS-22 leak images (HT deltaV: russianspaceweb.com VIA twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) 

— Eric Berger posted a comparison to a confirmed MMOD strike (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)

— Katya Pavlushchenko posted photos of orange stains on other Progresses (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— Uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 delayed (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— LauncherOne failure (virginorbit.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— H3 rocket aborts at pad (spacenews.com)

— Plans for Starship comes back to shore (spacenews.com)

— Blue Origin wins ESCAPADE contract (space.com)

— Launcher’s orbital transfer vehicle fails on orbit (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Nate Perkins via email: RS-25 certification (youtube.com)

— Biarki Weeks: ORCASat summary video (youtube.com VIA: discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Feb, 2009. Loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (justice.gov) (llis.nasa.gov)

— Next week (2/28 - 3/6) in 1995: Everyone get off the phone. I need to log into space.

Spaceflight News

— Kosmos-2499 breakup (russianspaceweb.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (space.com)

— Superheavy static fire (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Ryan R: twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT Alex: youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Progress MS-21 leak (twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Spaceport Camden saga continues (independent.co.uk)

— Kuiper gets conditional approval (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 20, 1986: Launch of DOS-7, the Mir core module (russianspaceweb.com) (youtube.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/21 - 2/27) in 2009: Nothing some Wite-Out/Tipp-Ex can’t fix.

Spaceflight News

— SSLV launch failure investigation completed (spacenews.com) (​isro.gov.in)

— VTM separation was captured on video, but payload deployment is only seen as a timestamp on a status display. (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA confident in A1 software (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Peregrine has a new destination (spacenews.com)

— Perseverance completes sample depot on Mars (​​cnet.com)

— See also: The Milky Way as seen from Mars (reddit.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 11, 2015: Launch of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (spaceflight101.com) (PDF: esa.int)

— Next week (2/14 - 2/20) in 1986. More computers, more beds 😴

Spaceflight News

— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

— JAXA tested an RDRE in 2021 (futurism.com)

— China tested a CDRE January 2023 (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)

Short & Sweet

— Starship WDR (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

— Lucy mission gets new target (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)

— JunoCam suffers significant anomaly during flyby (nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: NASA/DARPA NTP Collaboration (nasa.gov)

— Chris Hofmann: Ascent communications

This Week in Spaceflight History

— January 31, 1971. Launch of Apollo 14 (en.wikipedia.org) (hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week (2/7 - 2/13) in 2015: Penguin Paratrooper

Spaceflight News

— ABL failure analysis (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)

Short & Sweet

— NASA scales back ISS scientist program (spacenews.com)

— JUICE is ready for Jupiter (spacenews.com)

— Lucy’s Loose Limb (spacenews.com) (HT Brown Pau: blogs.nasa.gov)

— ClearSpace raises funds for its first mission (spacenews)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Vulcan delivered to the Cape (twitter.com/SpaceFlorida)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Jan 24, 1985: Launch of STS-51-C (en.wikipedia.org) (satelliteobservation.net)

— Next week (1/31 - 2/6) in 1971: I re-read the specs, let’s give it another shot.

Spaceflight News

— Soyuz MS-22 rescue (spacenews.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

— Virgin Orbit failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (virginorbit.com)

— Virgin Galactic recently restructured their leadership (spacenews.com)

— Virgin Orbit is suffering financial woes (arstechnica.com)

— ABL RS1 failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems) (HT Sam: twitter.com/shaggrugg) (twitter.com/Harry__Stranger)

Short & Sweet

— Soyuz-OneWeb hostage negotiations underway (russianspaceweb.com)

— JWST Killing It (spacenews.com) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust)

— Starship approaches a launch date? (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— January 22, 1968: Launch of Apollo 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ibiblio.org)

— Destin of Smarter Every Day interviewed a U.S. Space and Rocket Center Docent and Apollo engineer (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— LEM study guides are a great resource for finding answers to systems questions. (ibiblio.org) (ibiblio.org)

— Next week (1/24 - 1/30) in 1985. From Lunar Orion to Listening Orion.