Episode 297: Fleet Arrival

Spaceflight news— Mars Hope and Tianwen-1 arrive — Great video from Tianwen-1 as it passes its first periareion (twitter.com/AJ_FI) — Tianwen-1 will lower to a reconnaissance/landing orbit, then two different science orbits. (twitter.com/PRCMarsRover) — Mars Hope sent back a fantastic image (bbc.com)Mars fleet arriving soon — Perseverance (americaspace.com) (everydayastronaut.com) — Ingenuity (jpl.nasa.gov) (jpl.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov) — We previously talked to Ella Atkins about autonomous robotics (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— DARPA looks into off-earth manufacturing (rocketrundown.com)— Turkey aims for 2023 lunar landing (reuters.com)— The Vulcan pathfinder arrives (spaceflightinsider.com)— Doors open at Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory (HT Andy Z: twitter.com/WordsmithFL)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew Z and Espen via email: SN9 violation — Andy pointed out debris separation (6:20 and 6:23: youtube.com) — Espen pointed us at some illuminating tweets (HT Espen: twitter.com/wapodavenport)This week in SF history— 22 Feb, 1990. Launch of Ariane 4 V-36/407 (thespacereview.com) (capcomespace.net) — Next week (2/23 - 3/1) in 2002: European cars may be small…