NASA spacecraft Cassini and Galileo have captured images of a towering volcanic plume from the Jovian moon Io, which has spread a red ring of deposits around the surface. The 400km (250m) plume is from the Tvashtar Catena region near Io's north pole.
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.
