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NASA and NOAA’s latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service.
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Globalstar, Inc. said it has taken delivery of three additional second-generation satellites from manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.
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NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office at Johnson Space Center, Houston, has reported that debris from the ICESat spacecraft fell to Earth in the Barents Sea on 30 August at approximately 0900 UTC.
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Boeing announced that the first of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force has entered service.
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A primary mirror segment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has completed the final step in the manufacturing process. It is the first of the telescope’s primary mirror segments to achieve this milestone. Northrop Grumman Corporation is leading the telescope’s design and development effort for the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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ISRO has selected the payloads to be carried by India’s second unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-2.
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NASA’s ARTEMIS-P1 has become the first spacecraft successfully placed into an Earth-Moon libration orbit.
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Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station’s ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver.
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