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DMSP satellite’s break-up linked to battery failure

July 24, 2015 Stephen Clark

Investigators have traced the cause of an in-space disintegration of a U.S. Air Force weather satellite in February to a battery fault and identified six other spacecraft in orbit prone to the same failure.