ESA's Artemis satellite placed in parking mode, awaiting further boost
The European Space Agency's Artemis satellite has been boosted to a 31,000 kilometer (19,300 mile) "parking orbit" after an Ariane 5 rocket suffered a malfunction and initially left it in a too-low orbit (DAILY, July 16). ESA used the satellite's chemical boosters to increase the apogee of its orbit...
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