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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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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.