European Satellite Hit by Space Particle (Photos)

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 14:11 in Astronomy & Space

European Space Agency (ESA) engineers reported today (Aug. 31) that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimeter-size particle in orbit on Aug. 23.

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