GOES-3 satellite decommissioned
Friday, August 26, 2016 - 10:44
in Astronomy & Space
The National Science Foundation (NSF) late last month decommissioned a 38-year-old communications satellite that for 21 years had helped to link NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the outside world. It was among the oldest, continuously operating satellites in the skies.