Spaceflight News

— Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com)

— Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu)

Short & Sweet

— A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com)

— A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell in 5 months

Spaceflight News

— Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com)

— Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int)

— Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 17 Mar, 2002. Launch of GRACE spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (skyrocket.de) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (4/2 - 4/8) in 1965: Catching GEO worms

Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta

— The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com)

— facebook.com/AZAstrobiology

— threads.net/@azastrobiology

— instagram.com/azastrobiology

— Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)

Spaceflight News

— Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com)

— Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who to this day hold the record for longest canine spaceflight (Kosmos 110) (en.wikipedia.org) (ru.wikipedia.org) (veterok-ugolyok.gmik.ru) (astronaut.ru)

— Next week (3/19 - 3/25) in 2017: Dry, wet, and lumpy

Spaceflight News

— Last big IM-1 update (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust)

Short & Sweet

— Orion has hatch problems (spacenews.com)

— ISRO plans for Mars helicopter (indiatoday.in)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Varda landing footage (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 8 Mar, 2001. Launch of STS-102 (nss.org) (aiaa.org)

— Next week (3/12 - 3/18) in 1966: A 154 day mission, but only for the passengers

Spaceflight News

— IM-1 landing follow-up (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— ISRO completes human-rating of engine (isro.gov.in)

— Software error responsible for Firefly’s off-nominal payload delivery (fireflyspace.com) (space.com)

— Varda’s capsule returns (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Espen via email: IM-1’s fuel loading

 This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 March 1965: Atlas Centaur AC-5 explosion (en.wikipedia.org) (science.nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (3/5 - 3/11) in 2001: The first ten-person spaceflight

Spaceflight News

— IM-1 launch (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: intuitivemachines.com)

Short & Sweet

— H3 completes first successful launch (spacenews.com)

— Voyager 1 still struggles to communicate (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— February 21 2008, Interception and destruction of USA-193 (thespacereview.com) (PDF: unoosa.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/27 - 3/4) in 1965: Technically, that was highly elliptical

Spaceflight News

— Dream Chaser readies for first flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Viasat-3 pushes forward (spacenews.com)

— Lessons from Artemis 1 (spacenews.com)

— X-37B’s orbit speculation (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— 2002 VE68 was officially named Zoozve! (alex-foster.com) (radiolab.org) (radiolab.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 February, 1996: Failed launch of Intelsat 708 (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (thespacereview.com) (thespacereview.com) (smithsonianmag.com) (HT Dennis O: web.archive.org)

— Next week (2/20 - 2/26) in 2008: And it’s picked off at the 380,000 yard line!

Spaceflight News

— CLPS’ second try (spacenews.com)

— Collins completes Crew Capability Assessment (prnewswire.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Queqiao-2 readies for launch (cgtn.com)

— First metal 3D printer in space reaches ISS (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Orbit raising raising questions (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Feb, 2000. First launch of a Fregat upper stage (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/13 - 2/19) in 1996: First failure

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