Monthly Archives: August 2020

56-year-old NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth this weekend

The long space odyssey of a NASA geophysics satellite is nearing an end. De Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 spaceship, as OGO-1, launched in September 1964 to study the Earth’s magnetic environment and how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellite collected data until 1969, was officially disbanded in 1971 …

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