Spaceflight News

— Artemis I Rollout (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— SpaceX sets two new records (spacenews.com)

— First all-cosmonaut Soyuz docks with station (spaceflight.com)

— China satellite launch includes demonstration third-stage (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: JWST progress (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 25 Mar, 1961: Launch of Korabl-Sputnik 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (theatlantic.com) (nasa.gov) (airandspace.si.edu)

— Next week (3/29 - 4/4) in 1968: Less than perfect, but successful, but a failure.

Spaceflight News

— Astra LV0008/ELaNA 41 failure analysis (spacenews.com) (astra.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— OSAM-1 completes critical design review (nasa.gov)

— China to commercialize Tiangong spacenews.com

— Soyuz embargo leaves many satellites grounded (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Gravitational submarines

— Matthew Bell (iopscience.iop.org)

— Andrew not-Z via email suggests Re-entry Vehicle Dynamics (google.com)

— Aaron Sawdey (twitter.com/sawdey) (en.wikipedia.org)

Interview – Zachary Tong, creator of Breaking Taps on Youtube

— youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

— twitter.com/BreakingTaps

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Mar, 2003. The authorization of Project Prometheus (everyspec.com, alt: web.archive.org)

— Next week (3/22 - 3/28) in 1961: Ghost beetroot calls home.

Spaceflight news

— More Russian fallout

— Russia threatens OneWeb launch (spaceflightnow.com)

— OneWeb looking to non-Russian rockets (spacenews.com)

— eROSITA turned off on Russian Spektr-RG (space.com)

— ExoMars likely to be delayed (spacenews.com)

— South Korea worried about Russian launches (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Anahuac pleads guilty to selling tainted rocket fuel (justice.gov)

— Iranian launch failure (apnews.com)

— Post-recording, Iran successfully launched their second orbital payload. (reuters.com)

— SpaceX awarded 3 more commercial crew missions (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew Z via email: More sanctions considerations

— MMC in the chat: loss of ISS would free up money for the Moon.

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 March, 1985, Launch of Geosat (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: jhuapl.edu) (earth.esa.in)

— Next week (3/15 - 3/21) in 2003. Bringing fire to icy worlds.

Spaceflight news

— Sanctions on Russia

— Roscosmos pulled out of French Guiana (twitter.com/planet4589) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/nextspaceflight)

— NASA no longer involved in Venera-D? (spacenews.com)

— ISS is unlikely to be used as a pawn (reuters.com) (spacenews.com)

— ULA has enough RD-180s (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/torybruno) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/planet4589) (twitter.com/torybruno) (spacenews.com)

— Starliner uses Russian power converters (HT Ben Hallert: spacedaily.com)

— Post-Crimea sanctions were likely more impactful on the space industry (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Relativity qualifies rocket with structural test (satnews.com)

— Dream Chaser looking at landing in Japan (spacenews.com)

— China says moon impactor not Chang’e-5 (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 Mar, 2004. Launch of Rosetta (books.google.com) (sci-hub.se) (harvard.edu) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/8 - 3/14) in 2013: Watery potato

Spaceflight News

— JWST Alignment (PDF: spacefoundation.org) (HT deathkin: jwst-docs.stsci.edu)

— Follow JWST’s alignment progress on Where Is Webb? (jwst.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Chandra X-ray Observatory suspends operations (space.com)

— China reveals human spaceflight plans and communication with U.S. govt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 22 Feb, 1996. The launch of Columbia, STS-75 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (youtu.be) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Next week (3/1 - 3/7) in 2004: 5-7 = 46+21

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

Spaceflight News

— JWST cryocooler

— Alternative tube configurations include U-bend and coaxial (PDF p7: trc.nist.gov)

— Testing shows the cryocooler is TWICE as efficient as required! (nasa.gov)

— JWST’s radiators are coated with BIRB (PDF: indico.cern.ch)

Short & Sweet

— Curiosity’s wheels take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’ (cnet.com)

— InSight weathers a dust storm (spacenews.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander)

— Astra receives first Part 450 (twitter.com/Astra) (spacepolicyonline.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Uncle_Willy via Discord: four reasons why running Oxy-rich is bad

— BreakingTaps on YT made a JWST Hexapod Actuator model!!! More on this next week. (youtube.com)

Interview – Tupper Hyde, Chief Engineer at NASA's Goddard Center

— twitter.com/TupperHyde

— linkedin.com/in/tupperhyde

— nasa.gov/goddard

— etd.gsfc.nasa.gov

— Also discussed: the next generation of space telescopes is LUVOIR (en.wikipedia.org)

This week in Spaceflight history

—  February 10th 2009, The collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (PDF: castor2.ca) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikibooks.org)

— Next week (2/15-2/21) in 2007: BC? More like BSee-you later!

Spaceflight news

— Shijian-21 does some space tuggin’ (spacenews.com)

— Last November, a new object, 2021-094C, appeared near SJ-21 (spacenews.com)

— USA 271 “buzzed” SJ-20 in August 2020 (breakingdefense.com)

— SJ-21 might be trying net or debris lasing tech (PDF: airuniversity.af.edu

— 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement (US + USSR) (state.gov)

Short & Sweet

— NASA identifies cause of stuck solar panel on Lucy (spacenews.com)

— JMS is officially shut down (spacenews.com)

— Anomaly pauses Astroscale’s demo mission (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 7 Feb, 2008. Launch of STS-122 with Columbus module (en.wikipedia.org)

— ECO sensor system factsheet (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Launch damage included a lost LOMS stinger tile (PDF p18: nasa.gov, VIA spaceref.com)

— STS-93 is a good example of when the ECO fuel sensors might be a critical safety measure (TWSF: theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Next week (2/8 - 2/14) in 2009: 102.2 degrees and 77 protons.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis rescheduling (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Gamma ray observatory suffers anomaly in LEO (space.com)

— SpaceX wins a new contract (spacenews.com)

— Exomars to launch this year (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: ABL second stage anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: JWST Virtual Town Hall (stsci.edu)

Interview: Alex Lao, Kepler Communications

— linkedin.com

— Kepler.space

— twitter.com/KeplerComms

— CEO Mina Mitry wrote an article about the role of cubesats in space-based communication (spectrum.ieee.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 25 Jan, 1995. Launch of the SCIFER Sounding Rocket Experiment (PDF: sci-hub.se) (PDF: nasa.gov) (eucom.mil VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (2/1 - 2/7) in 2008: Failing Wet

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.