NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Set to Retire at End of Month Written 9 July 2024
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Artist’s concept shows the NASA WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Flying Magazine reports that NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, “has taken millions of infrared measurements and studied tens of thousands of asteroids, comets, stars, galaxies, and other objects.” In late 2024 or early 2025, the spacecraft “is expected to come home in pieces following the conclusion of its second mission later this month.”
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