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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on 7 February with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward comet Tempel 1.
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ESA’s GIOVE-A satellite – the first prototype of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system – is still working well after five years in space, the agency said.
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company’s 48 months of operation.

GPS Block IIA-10 (SVN-23), built by Boeing (formerly Rockwell Corporation), was launched on 26 November 1990 and set healthy to navigation and timing users on 10 December 1990.
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ATK and NASA are marking the 10-year anniversary of NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The spacecraft, built by ATK for the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had an initial design and mission life of one year but continues operating today, more than nine years past the initial mission.
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Astrium said it is celebrating 20 years of its of Eurostar telecommunication satellite platform.

Thales Alenia Space and French space agency CNES announced that their jointly developed PROTEUS platform has passed the symbolic milestone of 20 cumulated years in orbit. Six of these modular platforms have been ordered to date, and five have already been launched, for the Jason-1, Calipso, CoRoT, Jason-2 and SMOS satellites.
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A Rokot launch vehicle lifted off at the Plesetsk Launch Base on 26 August 2005 to place the Monitor E Earth observation small satellite in orbit. This experimental small EO spacecraft was the first built by Khrunichev. The 750-kg satellite is designed to support studies of Earth’s resources from a 540-km orbit.