Controllers have terminated
Controllers have terminated the U.S.-French Topex/Poseidon ocean surface-topography mission after 13 years and almost 62,000 orbits, concluding that a stalled pitch reaction wheel cannot be restarted. Jointly developed by NASA and France's CNES, the satellite measured worldwide changes in the oceans...
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