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Thales Alenia Space Italia announced the signature of a contract with OCCAR-EA (Organization for Joint Armament Co-operation) for the study phase for the definition and feasibility of the Multinational Space-based Imaging System (MUSIS) Federated Activities programme.

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On 16 July, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid.
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Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems has signed an agreement with Jena Optronik (Germany) for the supply of a star sensor for its GLONASS-M satellite.
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Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a contract by SKY Perfect JSAT to upgrade its ground systems with the latest version of Integral Systems’ EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) satellite command and control software.

Emergent Space Technologies, Inc., a provider of engineering services and solutions to civil, military, and commercial space programmes, was awarded a contract by the NASA Ames Research Center to provide cluster flight guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) algorithms and software for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) System F6 Program.

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded US$2.4 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and integrate an information architecture for wireless small module satellites. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company .

ESA has awarded a contract worth almost EUR150 million to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth’s atmosphere as part of Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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