Japan Shuts Down Solar A
The Japanese space agency JAXA has shut down its Solar-A spacecraft. Also known as Yohkoh (Sunbeam), the probe was expected to operate for three years after its launch in 1991. But it exceeded that mark by a decade, continuing to return good data on solar phenomena until December 2001, when attitude...
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