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GOES-3 decommissioned

Submit on Thursday, January 1st, 1970 00:00

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) late last month decommissioned GOES-3, a 38-year-old satellite that for 21 years had helped to link NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the outside world. It was among the oldest, continuously operating satellites in the skies.

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