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A British-built weather monitoring spacecraft has been deliberately guided into the Atlantic Ocean, the first time a defunct satellite has been maneuvered to pe
by nickserv 3y ago
A British-built weather monitoring spacecraft has been deliberately guided into the Atlantic Ocean, the first time a defunct satellite has been maneuvered to perform an assisted crash on Earth.
Aeolus, a satellite that has provided data to weather centers across Europe since 2018, was successfully helped to its final resting place by mission controllers at the European Space Agency.
- speps 3y agoThanks ChatGPT for the summary!
- sdflhasjd 3y agoIt's actually just first two paragraphs from the article, I don't know why this was posted.
- nickserv 3y agoWhen I posted the story there was a "text" field, thought it was to provide a summary of the article, but it actually creates a first post.
- constantly 3y agoI’ve done this before too. HN is broken in this way that if you post a link, the text field is ignored, or the site doesn’t support a link with original text.
- SiempreViernes 3y agoI wonder how British-built Aeolus turned out to be, the initial prime contractor in 2003 was to a UK company, but by the time it was actually launched in 2018 it was Airbus that was the prime...
- rsynnott 3y agoIt was built by Airbus, in the UK, per the article.