Spaceflight news

— SN8 follow-up (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (youtube.com)

— Martyte is a ceramic-filled epoxy, used to coat the flame trench (ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Vega launch failure linked to human error (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Russian spacewalk completed to prepare for science module. (space.com)

— Loverro exit illuminated (washingtonpost.com)

— Skyrora test fires third-stage engine (satnews.com)

— Rocket Lab successfully recovers booster. (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andy Z.: Moose, F9 delay for recovery zone weather by NASA or DOD, and Crew Dragon capacity (astronautix.com)

— Ben Hallert: VIF at Vandenberg? (twitter.com/chairboy) (spacenews.com)

— Don’t forget! 2800-2900 UTC, Dec 5, is the Hayabusa2 capsule reentry (smh.com.au) (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp) 

This week in SF history

— 26 Nov, 1965. Launch of Astérix, the first French satellite (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (12/1 through 12/7) in 1988: A quarter degree to spill the tea