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Pioneering Earth observation satellite retired by NASA

April 1, 2017 Stephen Clark

NASA has decommissioned a long-lived satellite launched in 2000 that demonstrated remote sensing and surveying instruments and techniques common in today’s orbiting Earth observatories.