Canada's Wescam has won a contract from NASA to supply three radio frequency camera systems for the Space Shuttle. The cameras will be used by Shuttle astronauts during the construction of the International Space Station. This is a space first for Wescam.
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.
