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The U.S. Defense Weather Systems Directorate is celebrating 50 years of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. On 23 August 1962 the National Reconnaissance Office’s classified Program 417 launched its first successful low altitude cloud imagery satellite into space and began a new era of military satellite weather.Other Posts:Northrop Grumman joins Hosted Payloads AllianceMetOp-A ceases direct high-res picture transmissionCalian Announces $15 Million RFT ContractInmarsat Profit Nearly Doubles In 2006Medvedev wants fast proposals on how to solve space industry problemsWGS-2 healthy after launchFirst flight of Indian cryo engine in JanuaryPseudo-satellites allow accurate navigation in Helsinki harbour

When the first Meteosat Second Generation satellite, Meteosat-8, was launched on 28 August 2002 it heralded a new era of discovery for meteorologists. It became fully operational at 0 degree longitude at the equator on 19 January 2004 and, in addition to providing weather information in much more detail, it provided information on phenomena which had never been considered before.Other Posts:RRSat enhances access to North America through Galaxy 23Rocketplane Kistler Partners with Orbital Sciences on NASA competitionCanada awards 12 satellite licences to Ciel, TelesatFengyun 3A enters test serviceCable TV: How To Access Unlimited Entertainment At A Cheap Price?NASA Space Network to begin new design phase for ground segmentThe Real Reason Satellite TV RocksUS Air Force AEHF-1 satellite completes payload activation

On 31 July, EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite completed its 30,000th orbit, which it started at 0755:45 UTC.

Forty years ago today, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) – later renamed Landsat – was launched. Five more Landsat spacecraft would reach orbit during the next 27 years. All were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base into near-polar orbits allowing them to image the entire Earth, one slice at a time, as it rotated below.

13 July 2012 marked 20 years of the first experimental launch of two Gonets-D communications satellites, built by Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.
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Goodrich Corporation : announced that the ORS-1 satellite has celebrated its first anniversary in space. ORS-1, the first Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) satellite specifically designed to support combatant command operations, was launched from Wallops Island Flight Facility aboard a Minotaur I launch vehicle on 29 June 2011.Other Posts:Bad weather, technical issues could affect shuttle launchVenezuela to order EO satellite from ChinaESA, Inmarsat agree on AlphaSatUpdate: Proton M/Briz M lifts off with Badr 4Globecomm Introduces Mobile Network For Low-Density MarketsIridium Satellite LLC results Q3 2008Boeing to add new technology to GPS IIF ground segmentSBSS payload integration and testing to start

Built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, NASA’s Aqua satellite recently marked its 10th year on-orbit, delivering data about the Earth’s climate, water cycle and much more.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation celebrated the company’s first three decades in the space business today as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise’s founding on 2 April 1982.