Or your dog, or favorite house plant, or whatever.
Via Bad Astronomy, we have learned of the Name That Satellite Project at NASA. NASA is trying to reverse the mistake of naming a sattelite "GLAST."
This appears to be the beginning of a new policy of satellite naming.
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You've probably already heard that a US spy satellite known as USA-193 is no longer able to keep itself up because the software on board has failed. This is a secret spy satellite so we don't at present know what the software was (any guesses?).
For years now global warming skeptics have been using satellite measurements to argue that global warming isn't happening, For example (from 1998):
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John Mashey points me to this site, which claims that microwaves from satellites are causing global warming!