ESA Trying To Re-Establish Contact with Envisat

PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) is working to re-establish contact with the 10-year-old Envisat spacecraft, which the agency says stopped relaying data to Earth April 8. The 8,000-kg (18,000-lb.) spacecraft has been in orbit twice as long as its five-year design life, but ESA hopes to keep...

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