This week in SF history— 9 January 1990. Launch of STS-32 (wikipedia.org) — Syncom IV-F5/Leasat 5 used a “Frisbee” deployment (youtu.be) — LDEF, Long Duration Exposure Facility had a lot of experiments onboard (youtube.com)Spaceflight news— New Horizons rings in the new year! (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Preliminary science results (sci-news.com)— OSIRIS-REx rings in the new year! (nasa.gov) — M3A originally “bounced” the spacecraft orbital direction (PDF: nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Demo-1 is imminent. (spaceflightinsider.com)— Chang’e-4 landed successfully (spacenews.com)— An Orbcomm satellite breaks up. (satnews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Chris Birke et all via slack: static friction doesn’t change with gravity— Marian via Discord: The people behind the dust experiments on the recent SpaceShipTwo launch have a podcast! walkaboutthegalaxy.comData Relay: Sea Dragon— Research report presented to NASA by Aerojet-General Corporation (PDF: neverworld.net)— Excellent recent animation of a launch (youtube.com)