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EMS Defense & Space, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., has received a contract from Thales Alenia Space to provide Ka band redundant low noise amplifier switching hardware.
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Mission managers for NASA’s Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft’s ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust on 27 June. Dawn team members were able to trace the episode to an electronic circuit in the spacecraft’s digital control and interface unit, a subsystem that houses the circuit and a computer that controls Dawn’s ion propulsion system.
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The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science has approved a yearly spending bill that would terminate funding for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The first Lockheed Martin -built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft beamed down its first infrared image on 21 June to the SBIRS ground station. Following its launch on 7 May, the satellite is performing as expected, and is now undergoing early orbit testing.

The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites, built and operated by Northrop Grumman Corporation, contributed to a successful sea-based missile defence test on 15 April by acquiring, after being cued remotely, a target missile during the midcourse phase of its flight.

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