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Did you know ...

• the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia is one of the best objects for calibrating Earth observation satellites?
• the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China?
• the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
• zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register?
• the satellite GPS IIR-1, intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System, was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
• the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite?
• 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space debris?
• an operational nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia?
• before the launch of a satellite, a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala?
• NASDA's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?