Japan-U.S. Geotail Mission Officially Comes to an End After 30 Glorious Years
An irreparable software glitch has put an end to Geotail, a JAXA-NASA joint mission. The satellite observed Earth's magnetosphere for more than 30 years within an extremely elliptical orbit, but the mission has officially been terminated, according to JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS).