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Australia celebrated the 40th anniversary of the launching of its first satellite.

The first hyperspectral imager in space, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation in just over 12 months, is marking its seventh anniversary on-orbit.

The first national satellite TV network in the world was officially declared operational 40 years ago.

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Voyager 2 was launched on 20 August 1977, and Voyager 1 on 5 September 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.

Ten years ago was the first successful launch of the RocketCam video system onboard a Delta II rocket, launching NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft from Florida.

The first U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR) satellite, built by a team led by Lockheed Martin, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. The company was founded as the Western Development Laboratories division of Philco Corporation in 1957.
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A Proton launch vehicle blasted off Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on 12 July 2000, carrying Russia-built Zvezda (”Star”) service module for the ISS.
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