General knowledge refresher published this article page no 12 after 30 years in orbit mission operations for the joint nasa-jaxa geotail spacecraft have ended following the failure of the spacecrafts remaining data recorder. since its launch on july 24 1992 geotail has orbited earth collecting a vast dataset on the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere earths protective magnetic bubble. geotail was originally scheduled for four years but due to its high quality data returns the mission has been extended several times contributing to over a thousand scientific publications general knowledge refresher magazine subscription.
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