NEWS BREAKS: AMERICAS.

This section offers news briefs in the aerospace industry. The computer on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft would be rebooted by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the first time since 2003, to avoid the potentially negative effects of accumulated memory corruption. A 92-acre launch complex at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for the abort flight tests of its Orion crew exploration vehicle has been completed by NASA. A subsidiary in Brazil has been opened by EADS Astrium affiliate Spot Image.