SMAP Radar Repair Effort Ends, But Mission Continues

Credit: NASA/JPL
Mission managers have abandoned the active element of NASA’s $916 million Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) environmental satellite, concluding that the spacecraft’s failed L-band radar is beyond repair. Soil-moisture data continues to flow from SMAP’s passive radiometer, but at lower resolution...

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