NASA Satellite Mission Earns Guinness World Record

Earlier this year, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) achieved the closest flying separation of a multi-spacecraft formation with only four-and-a-half miles between the four satellites. Now, the team of four satellites is breaking records again, this time earning a Guinness World Record for the highest altitude fix of a GPS signal. When the satellites are closest to Earth, they move at up to 22,000 miles per hour, making them the fastest known operational use of a GPS receiver. More

(Source: Raw Story - Nov 7)