Spaceflight news
— OSIRIS-REx completes TAG (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (asteroidmission.org)
— Descent video and description by Dante Lauretta (asteroidmission.org) (twitter.com/NASA)
— TAGSAM details (link.springer.com) (youtu.be)
— We spoke with Richard Witherspoon, mission operations systems engineer at Lockheed Martin in Ep 186 (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— Falcon 9 core sets record with Starlink launch. (americaspace.com)
— China reveals plans for a number of space projects. (spacenews.com)
— GHGSat detects smallest methane emission ever from orbit. (smallsatnews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Chris Hofmann via DM and Ben Hallert (twitter.com/chairboy): Firefly launches out of Vandenberg, not Wallops
This week in SF history
— 30 Oct, 1985. Launch of the eight-person shuttle crew, STS 61-A. Largest crew to date (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)
— Interview with Ernst Messerschmid, Payload Specialist (esa.int)
— Next week (11/3-11/9) in 1967: Fiber optics trained on the ringed planet
