Genesis spacecraft completes solar wind collection mission

NASA's Genesis spacecraft has ended its collection of solar wind particles, the aerospace agency said. The spacecraft has exposed its collector arrays of sapphire, silicon, gold and diamond to the solar wind since October 2001, but ended that collection earlier this month when the Genesis team at...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.