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Goodnight NEOWISE: NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Shut Down After 10 Years


NEOWISE, NASA's mission dedicated to tracking near-Earth objects, has been decommissioned after over ten years of service. The infrared space telescope relayed its final data to Earth before the project team at JPL sent a command that turned off its transmitter. The mission, which transitioned fr

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