The Russian Zvezda service module is still on schedule for a docking to the International Space Station (ISS) at 0153h local time on Wednesday morning and you will be able to see it moving across the sky for three minutes starting at approximately 0440h from 10deg above the SW, moving to 36deg above the SE, reaching a maximum elevation of 40deg.
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.
