Unexplained power drain shuts down instrument on Eros orbiter
Controllers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) have shut down an instrument on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) probe after it starting drawing excess electrical current and stopped sending data. The anomaly with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIS) first appeared on May...
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