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Nature 389, 108 (11 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38069

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Respite for NASA's troubled data system

Tony Reichhardt

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was this week optimistic that its troubled computer system for handling vast amounts of data from a planned constellation of Earth-observation satellites will be up and running for the scheduled launch of the first major satellite, AM1, next June. The system has just come through a critical test.