Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artists conception of Nasa’s Geotail spacecraft (Nasa) A 30 -year-old mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere may finally come ...

After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the spacecraft's remaining data recorder. After its launch on July 24, 1992, ...

A 30-year-old NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission has come to an end with the closing of operations on the Geotail satellite. Launched in July 1992, Geotail was designed to study ...

The failure of the Geotail's final data recorder has forced its mission to end after 31 years in orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The aging satellite, which has been observing Earth's magnetosphere since 1992, suffered a recent data recorder malfunction that led to its demise. Reading time 2 minutes An irreparable software ...

An artist's concept of the Geotail spacecraft. (Photo Credit: NASA) The NASA-JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) Geotail spacecraft, which was involved in studying Earth’s magnetosphere, the ...

An international team from Kanazawa University (Japan), Tohoku University (Japan), LPP (France), and partners has demonstrated that chorus emissions, natural electromagnetic waves long studied in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of NASA's Geotail spacecraft that has ended its mission after 31 years in space. After almost 31 years in space ...

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