Episode 279: Free-Floating Selfie Stick

Spaceflight news— Tianwen-1 selfie (twitter.com/AJ_FI) — No country’s first Mars mission has ever been an orbiter/lander pair before (eoportal.org) — Orbiter instrumentation (nssc.cas.cn) — Lander/rover instrumentation (spacerobotics.eu)Short & Sweet— U.S. to monitor spacecraft around cis-lunar space (breakingdefense.com)— ThrustMe secures ESA funding (satellite-evolution.com)— Starlink could serve as a GPS alternative (technologyreview.com)— China announces work on lunar-capable crewed launch vehicle (space.com)— SpaceX continues Boca Chica takeover (vice.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert: NRHO, but not Gateway, are required for Artemis 3 landing (twitter.com/chairboy)— From the intro: Dragon DEMO-2 named Resilience (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— October 9, 2009. LCROSS impact of the lunar south pole (wikipedia.org) — The in flight anomaly (spaceflightnow.com) — Crater investigation (arxiv.org) — Estimating the circumference of an ellipse (youtube.com)— Next week in 1976: joining the polar bear club