The US Accounting Office, the budgetary oversight arm of Congress, has launched an investigation into the $4 billion cost overrun by the International Space Station programme.
The review was requested by the House Science and Senate Committee, which _is concerned at the management decisions and policies that led to the overrun, and fears deep cuts in the science work that was the Station¹s original reason for being.
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.
