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
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.
