Up to four Ku-band BolivarSat communications satellites built by Alcatel Space will be launched into positions at 61º and 67º in geostationary orbit starting in 2003 for the Andesat consortium comprising organisations in Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Source: Flight International
The US space agency and manufacturer AeroVironment will soon release a detailed review of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s final flight, which came at the end of three years of operations that saw 72 sorties and 2h of flight on the Red Planet.
Airbus has detailed proposed reductions that will reduce the headcount of its defence unit by approximately 5% over the next 18 months, with just over 2,000 posts to be removed.
China’s AVIC has secured a contract from the China Manned Space Agency to develop a winged, reusable spacecraft called Haolong.
