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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received a multi-million dollar order to supply its Monics carrier monitoring system and related products to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) in support of one of its customers that will provide broadband communications services in remote areas. The name of the end-user customer was not disclosed.
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NASA’s rover Curiosity on Mars has finished a four-day process transitioning both of its redundant main computers to flight software for driving and using tools on the rover’s arm.
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The U.S. Air Force successfully activated the AEHF-2 communications payload on 14 August. Payload activation was accomplished from the AEHF command and control site located at Schriever AFB, Colorado.
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NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2013 and 2016. These CubeSats could be auxiliary payloads on previously planned missions.
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Engineers working on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel after onboard software powered it off on 8 August.

The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites participated in a test of the next generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system, designated FTM-16 E2a, when a Standard Missile-3 Block 1B interceptor successfully engaged a short-range ballistic missile target on 10 May.

The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the telescope to accurately and precisely point at the correct, intended objects for it to observe. The FGS is packaged together as a single unit with the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) science instrument.