LOST IN SPACE
Loss of attitude and electrical power has forced Japan's National Space Development Agency to shut down the JERS-1 Earth Resources Satellite. Launched in 1992 into a 350-mi. Sun-synchronous orbit, the 1.4-ton JERS-1 carried an L-band synthetic aperture radar and optical sensor package. It was used...
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