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I saw this story and though the headline alone would make it up your alley.
Unique Solar Probe Freezing to Death
The Ulysses solar probe, after 17 years of studying the sun and solar system, is about to die by freezing to death, NASA and the European Space Agency said Friday.
The satellite had long outlasted the five-year mission it began in 1990, but it continued to transmit useful data on solar winds.
More recently, its plutonium power source had slowly weakened and its fuel was freezing as the probe made a wide circle of the sun, traveling as far as Jupiter.
In January, engineers tried a longshot maneuver to heat up the fuel. Instead, their effort backfired and hastened Ulysses' death by several months.
You know, the same thing happened to Mars Global Surveyor?
Operator error on another satellite during it's investigation of global warming on other planets.
Lot of that going around.
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