Magellan Aerospace has completed construction of Canada's first science satellite for 40 years at its Bristol Aerospace subsidiary in Winnipeg.
Called SCISAT-1, it will be launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL booster on a NASA mission in January 2003, to study atmospheric chemistry.The main mission is to measure and understand the chemical processes that control the distribution and depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, particularly at high latitudes.
Source: Flight Daily News
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.
