Steering A Satellite: New Capability Comes To South Dakota
1:35 People in South Dakota could soon have control of a space object, apparently for the first time in the state’s history. The new capability is coming to the federal government’s Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, known by the acronym EROS, near Sioux Falls. The staff at EROS has been processing satellite imagery since 1972, but the facility has never been able to control a satellite’s movements – until now. NASA plans to launch a new Landsat observational satellite in September to replace one of the program’s two current satellites. The backup operations center fo...
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