The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest space-weather satellite has reached its operational orbit more than 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, the weather agency said June 8.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...