Episode 299: Dare Mighty Parachutes

Spaceflight news— Perseverance update! — Parachute message (twitter.com) — MATLAB solution (HT trbinsc in the chat: cdn.discordapp.com) — Make your own custom message! (sjwarner.github.io) — Perseverance photos and video (planetary.org) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) — Opportunity visited its heat shield’s crash site (HT Mike Stewart spaceref.com)— Dynetics completes preliminary design review for HLS lander (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)— NASA’s human spaceflight program and safety (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/wapodavenport) — We talked to Emory Stagmer about Starliner’s issues in episode 241 (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Culprit identified for failed Falcon 9 booster landing (spacenews.com) — Post-recording followup: sounds like this may have been an issue isolated to retrofire! (HT Mike Stewart: spacenews.com)— Blockchain transaction tested on orbit (parabolicarc.com)— Relativity is going reusable (cnbc.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Hartvik Line via email: Inspiration has 6-DOF sensing— twitter.com/chairboy: The largest spacecraft ever (wikipedia.org)This week in SF history— 5 Mar, 1999. Launch of WIRE space telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spiedigitallibrary.org) — Making the most of a bad situation (ucolick.org) (PDF: llis.nasa.gov)— Next week (3/9 - 3/15) in 1986. The first stop on our roadtrip.