Spaceflight news

— Rocket Lab secretly launches Photon spacecraft (techcrunch.com) (spacenews.com) (space.com)

Short & Sweet

— SpaceX sets a new record. (americaspace.com)

— China launches a reusable spacecraft. (spacenews.com)

— We have a Starship hop! (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— 7 Sept, 1995. Launch of STS-69 (wikipedia.org) (sciencedirect.com)

— Also had an alternate patch: Dog Crew II (spacepatches.nl)

— Mach waves were visible during launch (youtube.com)