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Aerojet and NEC Corporation announced that they have successfully operated a Japanese Hayabusa low power microwave ion engine at Aerojet’s facility in Redmond, Washington.
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An extension contract to develop a more powerful Alphabus was signed in Toulouse, France. The contract, signed by Astrium, Thales Alenia Space, ESA and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), will qualify Alphabus for the very high-power end of the communication satellite market.
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Seven satellite industry companies have agreed to form an industry alliance to increase awareness of the benefits of hosted government payloads on commercial satellites.
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An international spacecraft that will take NASA’s first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D mission will provide scientists with a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth that links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater, and climate.

Aerojet said that its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 16 billion km away from the Sun, at the edge of the solar system.