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  • How much fuel is left in this 20-year-old Mars orbiter?

    7 days ago - By Digital Trends

    Figuring out how much fuel remains in the Mars Odyssey spacecraft turned out to be more complicated than NASA engineers were expecting.
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  • NASA's AIM spacecraft goes silent after a 15-year run studying the Earth's oldest clouds

    NASA's AIM spacecraft goes silent after a 15-year run studying the Earth's oldest clouds

    7 days ago - By Engadget

    After 15 years in space, NASA's AIM mission is ending. In a brief blog post spotted by Gizmodo , the agency said Thursday it was ending operational support for the spacecraft due to a battery power failure. NASA first noticed issues with AIM's battery in 2019, but the probe was still sending a “significant amount of data” back to Earth. Following another recent decline in battery power, NASA says AIM has become unresponsive. The AIM team will monitor the spacecraft for another two weeks in case it reboots, but judging from the tone of NASA's post, the agency isn't holding its breath. NASA...
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