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Japanese Earth-Monitoring Satellite ADEOS-2 Goes Silent
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“Japan has lost contact with the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-2 (Adeos-2), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Oct. 25.
The Earth observing satellite, which was launched in December, failed to make a scheduled data transmission Oct. 25 and engineers subsequently discovered that the craft had turned off all of its observation equipment to minimize power use, JAXA reported. It was later discovered that the spacecraft’s solar panels were producing only 1 kilowatt of power, rather than the normal 6 kilowatts.”