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Metop-A, Europe’s first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, has completed its 20,000th orbit of the Earth.

Lockheed Martin said it congratulated the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space.

The fifth Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-5) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, has reached 10 years of successful on-orbit operations.
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Proton on 16 July celebrated the 45th anniversary of its first flight. Originally named UR-500, the rocket later took on the name Proton in homage of its first three payloads. Its first payload, the satellite “Proton-1,” has a mass of over twelve tons and was inserted into orbit at 589 km apogee, 183 km perigee, and an inclination of 63.4 degrees.
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ESA’s pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During the past decade, Cluster’s four satellites have provided extraordinary insights into the largely invisible interaction between the Sun and Earth, the agency said.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation said the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope spacecraft has performed flawlessly over the initial two years of its mission.

GIOVE-B has completed its second year in orbit. The satellite was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 27 April 2008 to help validate the technologies developed for the Galileo navigation constellation.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST), built and integrated at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, was launched 20 years ago aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, on 24 April 1990.
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