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The Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed eight years of on-orbit operations, performing six years beyond its minimum two-year mission requirement.
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NASA’s Aqua satellite, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation , marked its fifth year on-orbit today observing the Earth’s water systems, producing a massive data flow that is giving the world’s scientists insight into the Earth’s climate.

CloudSat, a satellite mission conceived by Colorado State University scientist Graeme Stephens, celebrated its first anniversary on 28 April as the world’s most sensitive cloud-profiling radar in orbit.

Orbital Sciences Corporation celebrated the company’s first quarter-century in the space business today as it completed 25 years of operations since the enterprise’s founding on 2 April 1982.

On 17 March 2002 Russia-built lightweight Rokot rocket blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Northern Russia, carrying two NASA/DLR science Grace spacecraft. The twin GRACE satellites were successfully deployed into a near polar orbit.

Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002, ESA’s Envisat spacecraft marks its fifth year in space.

NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission, operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), celebrated its 5th launch anniversary on 7 December 2006, and its many contributions enabling a greater understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Spacenet Inc. announced that the company celebrated its 25th anniversary providing satellite and communication services to enterprise, government, small office and residential customers.