- The joint mission operations of the NASA-JAXA, Geotail spacecraft have signed off after 30 years in orbit.
- Reason: Failure of the spacecraft’s remaining data recorder.
- This mission was launched on July 24, 1992.
- Geotail orbited Earth had gathered an immense dataset on the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere, Earth’s protective magnetic bubble.
- It was originally slated for a four-year run, but the mission was extended due to its high-quality data return.
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