GOES Control Problem Could Be Due To Micrometeroid Collision

Credit: Boeing
A micrometeoroid might be the culprit for an abrupt attitude problem that halted the flow of critical weather prediction data for the East Coast from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, according to a program official. A Geostationary Operational Environmental...

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