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  • Pioneering Earth observation satellite retired by NASA

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    Artist’s concept of the EO-1 satellite in orbit. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SVS NASA has decommissioned a long-lived satellite launched in 2000 that demonstrated remote sensing and surveying instruments and techniques common in today’s orbiting Earth observatories. The Earth Observing-1 spacecraft’s orbit has shifted away from its optimal perch, and the satellite does not carry enough propellant to…