NASA has told the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that the first elements of its hardware for the International Space Station, including a pressurised laboratory, will not be launched until the eighth Space Shuttle mission following STS 121, now scheduled for May, but more likely to take place in June.
Source: Flight International
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.
