SAN FRANCISCO — NASA plans to take another look at one element of the criteria used to determine the winner of a vigorously contested space communications network contract worth as much as $1.26 billion over seven years, according to government officials and space agency documents.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...