The launch of NASA's Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket, already delayed once to 4 November, is now due to take place on 9 November, from Vandenberg AFB, California with a 7min launch window open.
Source: Flight International
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.
