The Russian Space Agency and national company STC Komplex have established Launching Services, a company which is dedicated to providing transportation services for small satellites to low-Earth orbit, using Cosmos and Start boosters from the Plesetsk and Svobodny cosmodromes.
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.
