Episode 384: Spaceplane, Spaceplane, Fire

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab’s Catch Me If You Can Wasn’t (parabolicarc.com) (businesswire.com) (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Chinese Spaceplane Releases Object On-orbit (spacenews.com)— Spaceplane Aurora Tested at Peenemünde (spacewatch.global)— Fire Alarm Scrubs NG-18 Launch (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Practical Engineering’s look at Endeavor’s trip through LA (youtube.com)— Vertical payload integration (youtube.com)— Reflective Layer (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— November 11, 2013: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer’s reentry (en.wikipedia.org) (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceflight101.com) — GOCE had sophisticated accelerometers (HT Colin: link.springer.com)— Next week (11/15-11/21) in 1967: Actually, I thought it’d be right about this high at MECO.