Controllers thaw SOHO fuel tank; full recovery 'weeks' away

European Space Agency controllers working out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center finished thawing the hydrazine fuel in the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Tuesday night, but it could be "weeks" before it is known whether the spacecraft spinning out of control at the Lagrangian...

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