Boeing hopes to move NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-I) into its correct geostationary orbit this month after it was stranded in a transfer orbit in March when one of two hydrazine fuel tanks failed to be pressurised by helium. Boeing plans to use helium from a second tank for the rescue.
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.
