On 11 February NASA's Orbiter Vehicle (OV)-105 Endeavour was rolled from its Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center into the Vehicle Assembly Building for mating with the vehicle's external propellant tank and two solid rocket boosters.
This is in preparation for its 11 March mission STS-123 that will deliver the first part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
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Source: FlightGlobal.com
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.
BAE Systems has completed its acquisition of Ball Aerospace, with the move further strengthening its US business presence.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has retired its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the craft suffered damage upon landing.
