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NASA’s OGO-1 satellite has finally returned to Earth after 56 years in orbit – TechSpot
Each OGO spacecraft was developed to study the movements of Earth, and determine how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellites remained stalwart in that mission for a solid five years before NASA shut the project down.
In brief: As the saying goes, what goes around comes around, and that’s certainly the case for NASA’s Orbiting Geophysical Observatory project. The first of the six satellites involved in this project — OGO-1 — has just crash-landed back on Earth after 56 years in orbit.
Each OGO spacecraft was developed to study the movements of Earth, and determine how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellites remained stalwart in that mission for a solid five years before NASA shut the project dow…
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