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NASA Satellite Crashes to Earth After 56 Years – ExtremeTech
The six Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) spacecraft improved our understanding of Earth’s magnetic field, shutting down a few years later. However, one of those forlorn satellites known as OGO-1 has just made the news again by finally falling back to Ea…
During the height of the space race in the 1960s, the US launched a series of satellites designed to study the planet. The six Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) spacecraft improved our understanding of Earth’s magnetic field, shutting down a few years later. However, one of those forlorn satellites known as OGO-1 has just made the news again by finally falling back to Earth after 56 years.
NASA launched OGO on September 4, 1964 from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas-Agena B rocket. While som…
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