Spaceflight News— Vega propellant tank mishap  (arstechnica.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: arianespace.com) — AVUM 4th stage (“upper stage”) (Pic: eoportal.org)— Transporter-9 satellite deployment malfunction (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Iran successfully launches bio-capsule (payloadspace.com)— Chinese methalox rocket progress continues (cgtn.com)— Stratolaunch tests hypersonic vehicle (thedrive.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 12 Dec, 2012: NIAC releases Space Debris Elimination (SpaDE) Phase 1 report (nasa.gov)— Next week (12/19 - 12/25) in 1976. Achievement unlocked