Boeing and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have signed a teaming agreement to reinforce their joint work on the International Space Station. The aim is to ensure an integrated global approach for long-term support of the ISS. The agreement includes a range of US payload integration for the Japanese Transfer Vehicle. Pictured are Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing International Space Station and Tadayuki Tanioka, managing director MHI.
Source: Flight Daily News
China’s AVIC has secured a contract from the China Manned Space Agency to develop a winged, reusable spacecraft called Haolong.
The UK Space Command’s first owned earth observation microsatellite has been launched, providing the inaugural element of a planned space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) constellation.
Orbital launch pioneer SpaceX is being contracted by the American space agency NASA to develop a so-called “US Deorbit Vehicle” that can safely return the International Space Station to Earth via controlled re-entry.
