Space Adventures and XCOR plan to develop a reusable suborbital spacecraft for space tourism. The XCOR rocket-powered Xerus spacecraft would take off and land like an aircraft, carrying a pilot and one space tourist on a 100km (62 mile) altitude, hour-long flight. Tourist flights could begin between 2005 and 2006.
Source: Flight International
The US space agency and manufacturer AeroVironment will soon release a detailed review of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s final flight, which came at the end of three years of operations that saw 72 sorties and 2h of flight on the Red Planet.
Airbus has detailed proposed reductions that will reduce the headcount of its defence unit by approximately 5% over the next 18 months, with just over 2,000 posts to be removed.
China’s AVIC has secured a contract from the China Manned Space Agency to develop a winged, reusable spacecraft called Haolong.
