Nordic Satellite's 15-Ku band Sirius 3 communications satellite, operating at 28° in geostationary orbit, will be leased for one year by Société Européenne des Satellites, Luxembourg, as a back-up for the Astra 2A, which is due be launched by Arianespace next month.
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.
