Infrared Satellite Fails After Launch
NASA is investigating the loss shortly after launch of the Wide-field Infrared Explorer (Wire)--a Small Explorer astronomy satellite that is also part of the Origins program. The U.S. space agency spent $73 million on the mission. It was to have been a 4-month survey of the cosmos to explore star...
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