Astronauts and groundcrew for Space Shuttle Atlantis's STS-117 International Space Station assembly mission were planning a launch dress rehearsal, known as the terminal countdown demonstration test, at the end of last week. Atlantis was rolled out to pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 15 February for a 15 March launch.
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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.
