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ASTRO, NextSat re-united after computer glitch

Submit on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 04:32

On 18 May the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency’s Orbital Express team successfully captured the NextSat client spacecraft with the ASTRO servicing satellite, after a critical failure of ASTRO’s primary sensor flight computer (AC-2) on 11 May that had the two spacecraft drift apart.

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