Landsat 5 has resumed operations

Landsat 5 has resumed operations following a two-month shutdown after engineers from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA devised a way for its balky solar array drive mechanism to keep enough power flowing to the spacecraft payload for normal operations. Controllers shut down the 23-year-old...

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