Jason-1 Satellite Decommissioned
STANDING DOWN: Jason-1, a Franco-U.S. ocean-topography spacecraft in operation since Dec. 7, 2001, has gone offline after its sole remaining transmitter failed on June 21. NASA and the French space agency CNES decommissioned the Earth-science bird after 11.5 years of service continuing the data set...
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