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NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Sets new Guinness World Record

Staff Reporter   |

Nov 07, 2016 02:10 PM EST

Just over a month after NASA achieved the closest flying separation ever of any multispacecraft formation, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest altitude fix of a GPS signal as the team of four satellites set the new record of 43,500 miles above the surface of the Earth.