EarthWatch tries to recover EarlyBird as OSC responds to NASA

Engineers from EarthWatch Inc. and Orbital Sciences Corp. were still trying to reestablish contact with the EarlyBird 1 remote sensing satellite yesterday, sending commands to the ailing spacecraft designed to conserve power and recharge its batteries, according to an EarthWatch spokesman. Meanwhile...

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