The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that its Tianwen-1 orbiter had mapped the entire surface of Mars but that is just the tip of the iceberg of the most interesting space news that happened over the last week. From a communications blackout with a NASA spacecraft to a new waste disposal technique at the international space station, here is last week’s space news recap. After being in operation for 706 days and circling Mars over 1,344 times, the orbiter of the Tianwen-1 mission has generated medium-resolution image data that covers the whole globe of the red planet. While it...