The European Space Agency (ESA) has revived the Venus Express mission to orbit the planet and make radar soundings of its subsurface. It will be launched in 2005 after an extra infusion of €8.5 million ($8.56 million) and will use the same design as the Mars Express orbiter to be launched in 2003.
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.
