- Spaceflight news
- Mars One suspends automated lander activities (Space News via Scott Maxwell)
- Smarter Every Day starts a space series (YT)
- No more F9R Dev (SEN)
- SES decides to be first customer for F9 with enhanced Merlin 1-D engines (Space News)
- A week full of EVAs
- Terry Verts finds water in his helmet absorption pad on ingress (SFN) (Space Station Live)
- Discussion, questions, comments
- /u/pick-six: It’s LRO that’s being cut, not MRO. (/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Closeup look at IDA (reelNASA)
- Speaking of spacewalks (Radiolab)
- /u/ruaridh42: Peacekeeper used for Orion in-flight abort should be named Little Joe 3. (/r/SLS)
- Awesome LEE footage/illustration in prep for EVA 30 where grease will be applied (YT)
- Tethers as power source in Jupiter system? (Centauri Dreams)
- Space suits
- Upcoming spaceflight events
- March 3: Gonets M
- On Rokot from Plesetsk
- March 5: Dawn insertion around Ceres (space.com)
- March 12: Kompsat 3A
- On Dnepr from Dombarovski
- March 12/13: MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission)
- On Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral
- March 15 IRNSS 1D
- On PSLV from Sriharikota, India
- March 18: Express AM7
- On Proton from Baikonur
- TBD, hopefully this month: ORS 4 and ~15 cubesats
- Super Strypi from Barking Sand
- March 3: Gonets M
Suraev with two Orlans
A Sokol suit with several different sized gloves, in storage at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
