NASA Geotail

NASA Geotail mission fails last data logger

(ORDO NEWS) — NASA‘s Science Mission Directorate, the Japan Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are deciding the fate of the Geotail mission. Scientists have discovered that the spacecraft’s last live data recorder has failed. Initially, Geotail was equipped with two data loggers to collect mission science data. One of them failed in 2012 after 20 years of collecting information about the…