The first flight of Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Falcon private-venture launch vehicle will carry the TacSat-1 satellite into low-Earth orbit for the US Department of Defense's Office of Force Transformation. The TacSat-1 data communications micro-satellite, being built by the US Naval Research Laboratory, will be launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, early next year.
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.
