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GOES-13 Back in Service

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
June 11, 2013
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NOAA Returns a Healthy GOES-13 to Normal Operations as GOES-East, NOAA
NOAA today officially returned the GOES-13 spacecraft to normal operations, after tests showed a micrometeoroid, likely hit the arm for the solar array panel on May 22, knocking the spacecraft off its delicate, geostationary balance.

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One response to “GOES-13 Back in Service”

  1. Richard H. Shores says:
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    This is great news. If GOES-13 could not return to service, NOAA would not have a usable spare if GOES-14 had to take its place.