Perseverance, the most advanced rover ever sent to the Mars, touched down on Friday February 18, 2021 on an ancient lakebed called Jezero Crater to look for signs of life.

Perseverance will start its search for life using a number of advanced instruments and equipment produced by NASA to collect and cache rock samples for future return to Earth missions using other rovers arriving in the future. 

For further information on the rover and it's mission please follow the link to the NASA webpage below.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

A new Russian cargo ship was launched into orbit Sunday 14th February to deliver cargo to the seven crew members on the International Space Station.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos launched the cargo ship called Progress 77 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will arrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday 17th February.

Progress 77 contains cargo and supplies for the crew currently on board the station. Progress 77 carries research equipment and crew supplies such as food and clothing, along with a supply of fresh water, nitrogen gas and propellant for the station's Zvezda service module propulsion system.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Monday 15th February, but failed to stick its landing on a floating platform at sea. 

Starlink is a collection of low cost, mass-produced satellites that provides low latency, broadband internet systems to meet the needs of consumers across the globe.

SpaceX prefers to recover its Falcon 9 rocket stages for reuse, but the company has also said repeatedly that delivering a flight's payload to orbit is always the primary mission. 

The video below shows an array of starlink satellites orbiting in a straight path in the night sky.