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Northrop Grumman Corporation said was recently awarded a contract to study high-power solar electric propulsion flight system technology for NASA deep space and human exploration missions.
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Space Systems/Loral announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide a high power communications satellite. The company said that further information on the contract award will be released at a later date.

NEC Corporation announced the beginning of system design of asteroid explorer for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 Project, a successor to the original Hayabusa asteroid explorer.

The U.S. Air Force has stopped work on the Defense Weather Satellite System to implement the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act and FY12 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

Russia’s Chibis-M microsatellite, which studies gamma-radiation generated by lightning in the atmosphere, separated from the Progress M-13M cargo vessel at 2318 UTC on 24 January.