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Ball Aerospace says QuikSCAT moving toward automated operations

Staff September 07, 1999
Ball Aerospace, which built NASA's QuikSCAT ocean scatterometer satellite in record time as the first procurement through the agency's new satellite "catalogue," said the spacecraft will soon be ready to begin cost-saving autonomous operations. Launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on June 19 aboard...

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