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The NVS-02 navigation satellite being encapsulated into its payload fairing ahead of its Jan. 28 launch. Credit: ISRO WASHINGTON — A recently launched Indian navigation satellite is stranded in a transfer orbit after the failure of its onboard propulsion system and could soon renter. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated Feb. 2 that the

SpaceX's second launch for the U.S. military in three days blasted off from Florida Wednesday with a GPS navigation satellite to reinforce the global positioning and timing network as four more GPS spacecraft are in storage at a Lockheed Martin factory in Colorado to be launched as needed over the next few years...