Spaceflight news

— JWST bonk (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (youtube.com)

— The clamp came off “in a way that it was not designed to come off” (HT deltaV+Deathkin: twitter.com/wapodavenport)

Short & Sweet

— Japan to recruit astronauts for first time in 13 years (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Hubble makes a partial recovery (space.com)

— Rocket Lab to manufacture more spacecraft components (smallsatnews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Reusable satellites (smallsatnews.com)

This week in SF history

— 2 Dec, 1990. Launch of Soyuz TM-11 (sen.com) (spacefacts.de) (nytimes.com) (weathernews.jp)

— Next week (12/7-12/13) in 1974: Hitze und Geschwindigkeit.