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Nozomi Abandoned by Japan Space Agency

Posted by michael on from the then-there-were-three dept.

rufey writes "Space.com is reporting that officials at JAXA, Japan's space agency, were unable to fix the problems plaguing Nozomi and have therefore abandoned all efforts to get it to orbit Mars. The main problem is lack of fuel. Instead of surveying Mars, JAXA is planning on using the probe, as it orbits the Sun, for other things such as solar activity. This is just one of four Mars probes that are scheduled to arrive at Mars in the next 60 days."

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  1. That is very sad, but... by dnahelix · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am personally disheartened at this. I was rooting for the Japanese to have a successful Mars mission.
    I am glad to see that they can possibly still use it for solar monitoring. As of now, if SOHO goes down, we have no solar monitoring from space.
    Good luck to Japan in finding a use for NOZOMI.

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