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Future Purposes for Ailing QuikSCAT Satellite Under Assessment The ten-year-old QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) NASA mission is considered by many at the American space agency and elsewhere as one of the most valuable national resources in orbit today. The satellite, whose goal was to provide up-to-date data on the direction and speed of winds over the planet's oceans, was o... 26 November 2009 18:31 GMT