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
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.
