GOES-8 placed in safe mode after losing Earth lock
Ground controllers have placed the GOES-8 weather satellite in a safe hold configuration after the platform lost its lock on Earth last week. A spokesperson for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Friday controller's at the agency's center in Suitland, Md., believed...
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