Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
A satellite in the fleet of Russia’s answer to GPS has been decommissioned because of a terminal malfunction, space officials said Tuesday. The Federal Space Agency said it stopped receiving signals from Glonass 728 on July 1...
Friday, December 21st, 2012
Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history. By any measure, the Landsat 5 mission has been...
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Operators of the Global Positioning System have brought a decommissioned satellite back to life to replace an ailing craft in the precision navigation network, the Air Force said. The GPS 2A-22 spacecraft had been removed from active...
