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To protect against a gap in U.S. weather satellite data collection, a team reviewing progress on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) satellite program is recommending the weather monitoring department rapidly purchase additional sensors.

Globalstar, Inc. will market a personal anti-theft device, SPOT Trace, designed for safeguarding vehicles or other valuables using satellite communications and global positioning technologies.

United Launch Alliance is looking to restructure its workforce

The partnership approach NASA used to spur development of two commercial cargo vehicles for International Space Station logistics can hold down the cost of future development, the agency and its commercial partners said in a ceremony marking the official end of the program Nov. 13. But the agency has no solid plans to apply it beyond the commercial crew development effort already underway, and that work is drawing fire.

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NASA can stretch its budget for deep-space human exploration by working in partnership with private companies, much as it hopes to do with international partners as it moves beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) to cislunar space and beyond, according to a report prepared for the agency by Bigelow Aerospace.

NEW DELHI — A day after an engine anomaly slowed its progress, India’s Mars Orbiter successfully raised its orbit to an apogee above 118,000 km (73,000 mi.) on Nov. 12. The country’s first Mars orbiter suffered a setback on Nov. 11 as attempts were made to raise the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth to built momentum for its trip to Mars. A minor problem with the liquid fuel thruster caused the 1,350-kg (3,000-lb.) vehicle to fall short of the mark.