Spaceflight News

— K2 Space wins contract (spaceinsider.tech) (spacenews.com) (addtheegg.com)

Short & Sweet

— Contracts awarded for NASA’s Near Space Network (spacenews.com)

— Record breaking spacewalk set by Shenzhou-19 crew (spacenews.com)

— Crew-10 delayed (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 Jan, 1959. Launch of Luna 1, first spacecraft to reach the Moon (en.wikipedia.org) (smithsonianmag.com) (mentallandscape.com) (smithsonianmag.com)

— Next week (1/7 - 1/13) in 1968: Highlander - there can be only one (of seven)

Spaceflight News

— Orion’s heat shield (americaspace.com) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Tests of Russian Orbital Station core module announced (interfax.com)

— Ingenuity’s Crash Investigation (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Joel Rogers via email: Young and Crippen didn’t fly on Enterprise.

This Week in Spaceflight History

— December 17, 2012: Grasshopper makes its first real hop (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (1/1 - 1/6) in 1959: To the moon! Uh... to the Sun!

Spaceflight News

— Swirl-dominated chambers (payloadspace.com) (https://www.sierraspace.com) (Pic, from researchgate.net) (PDF: nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— So long Sutherland Spaceport (satellitetoday.com)

Further delays to Artemis program announced (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Dec, 1970. Launch of Uhuru (nasa.gov) (PDF: jhuapl.edu)

— Next week (12/17 - 12/23) in 2012: Ride ‘em, cowboy

Spaceflight News

— Epsilon can’t stop exploding (space.com) (youtu.be) (PDF: jaxa.jp)

— A Dragonfly on a Falcon Heavy (satellitetoday.com)

Short & Sweet

— Old spaceport, newish rocket (europeanspaceflight.com)

— New rocket, new spaceport (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: New Glenn on the pad (space.com) (blueorigin.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Dec, 2003: Shuttle Training Aircraft loses part of an engine (iasa.com.au VIA web.archive.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (simpleflying.com)

— Next week (12/10 - 12/16) in 1970: Equatorial eyes

Spaceflight News

— Global grasshoppers

— Russia’s hopper (arstechnica.com)

— EU’s hopper (europeanspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Omani spaceport looks to launch next month (www.thenationalnews.com)

— China tests inflatable spacecraft on orbit (news.cgtn.com) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Test Flight Six (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) 

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Progress contamination (russianspaceweb.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 28, 1983: Launch of STS-9, Columbia (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)  (americaspace.com)

— Next week (12/3 - 12/9) in 2003: You’ve heard of the space banana, but what about the Banana River dunk?

Spaceflight News

— Zvezda leak disagreement (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— NGR is in the building! (spacenews.com)

— Bye bye ABL (from launch anyway) (arstechnica.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Nov, 1970. Launch of Kosmos 379 (astronautix.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) 

— Next week (11/26 - 12/2) in 1983: And then there were six

Spaceflight News

— CRS-2 extended (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Gilmour ups and Bowen downs (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— LignoSat to be deployed from ISS (popsci.com) (nanosats.eu)

— Long March 9: Starship (arstechnica)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: LEO safety study (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Nov, 1981: The launch of STS-2 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (11/19 - 11/25) in 1970: LELO: Low-Earth “Lunar” Orbit

Spaceflight News

— Shenzhou-19 reaches Tiangong (spaceflightnow.com)

— Mirror platform for Tiangong (news.cgtn.com) (youtube.com)

— Low-cost Tiangong cargo S/C (spacenews.com)

— “Kinetica-2 [selected] as top launcher choice” (twitter.com/cas_space)

— Crewed moon rover (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/YuqiiQian)

Short & Sweet

— Artemis heat shield chunks (spacenews.com)

— Liquid water on Mars (nature.com VIA nasaspaceflight.com) (news.berkeley.edu)

— California startup develops ABEP system (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 8, 2004: First launch of a Soyuz 2 carrier rocket (en.wikipedia.org) (v2rockethistory.com)

— Next week (11/12 - 11/18) in 1981: 40% of the mission, 90% of the objectives.

Spaceflight News

— Starship Flight 5 Review “Leaked” (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT DennisO: x.com/StarshipGazer)

Short & Sweet

— Crew-8 post-landing medical issue (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Companies to bring commercial launch to Ireland (europeanspaceflight.com)

— ACS-3’s a little crooked (space.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Mars Sample Revision (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Aerojet 260 solid rocket test (en.wikipedia.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Nov, 1994. Launch of STS-66 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nss.org) (youtu.be)

— Next week (11/5 - 11/11) in 2004: A blind bowling ball

Thanks to Dennis O for naming this week’s episode!

Spaceflight News

— Intelsat 33e loses power and blows up (spacenews.com) (x.com/S4S_SDA) (reddit.com)

Short & Sweet

— Sirius Space hot fire (europeanspaceflight.com)

— A Firefly to launch a Jackal (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Ross Peterson: Super Heavy’s reentry heating

— Taylor S Marks: ISS graveyard orbit (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  27 Oct, 1992. Launch of the Znamya 2 solar power antenna (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (qsl.net) (skypub.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (10/29 - 11/4) in 1994: holding the weight of LEO on your shoulders