The European Space Agency is developing a small spacecraft, the Sloshat-FlevoIn, as part of a study on how propellant sloshing can affect satellite stability. The Sloshat-Flevo will be deployed by the Space Shuttle on an International Space Station flight in April 2003.
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.
