NASA has selected 15 proposals for contract negotiation in its Low Cost Boost Technology project, to develop innovative, off-the-shelf, launch-system technologies which could reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit. The proposals include propellant-delivery systems.
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.
