ACTS' FINAL ACT
NASA's $363-million Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) is being deactivated after seven years in geosynchronous orbit testing Ka-band technology designed to reduce frequency overcrowding. The Glenn Research Center spacecraft, launched in 1993 on board shuttle mission STS-51, far...
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