The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Perseverance has landed! (arstechnica.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (uahirise.org) — HiRISE managed to snap a photo of Perseverance under its parachute (uahirise.org) (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/HiRISE) — Interview with Ingenuity’s Operations Lead (HT Colin-in-the-chat: spectrum.ieee.org) — Ingenuity runs open source control software called f’ (github.com/nasa)Short & Sweet— China prepares to launch first segment of space station (spacenews.com)— SpaceX demonstrates more data collection leads to more system knowledge (youtube.com)— Test flight of Starliner slips to April (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 1 March 2002: Launch of the world’s largest civilian earth observation satellite (earth.esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org) — Succeeded European Remote Sensing Satellites (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int) — Eventually replaced by Sentinel (wikipedia.org)— Next week (3/2 - 3/8) in 1999: Once you pop, the fun don’t start.