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09-01-2016, 02:40 AM
A European satellite got hit by some kind of space debris
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An Earth-gazing satellite keeping an eye on our planet from above appears to have been whacked by a little piece of natural or human-made space debris.
Engineers working with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-1A spacecraft **ticed a small and sudden dip in the power produced by one of the satellite's solar panels on Aug. 23, ESA said.*
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ESA mission controllers investigated the slight power loss, turning a couple of cameras on the spacecraft to try to see if there was any visible issue with the solar panel.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/european-spacecraft-hit-by-space-junk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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ESA mission controllers investigated the slight power loss, turning a couple of cameras on the spacecraft to try to see if there was any visible issue with the solar panel.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/european-spacecraft-hit-by-space-junk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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