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US Air Force celebrates end of the world's largest uncrewed satellite

14/07/2021 09:30 PM | Click to read full article

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's mission to study Earth's Van Allen radiation belts and their effect on spacecraft has come to a close after exceeding its original planned lifetime of one year in orbit. 

The Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft, built and managed by the laboratory that's also known as AFRL, launched on June 25, 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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