Solar max kaputt!

The Solar Maximun Mission satellite, launched in 1980, entered the atmosphere on December 3 and burned over the Indian Ocean. The objective of the satellite was to study solar activity to the maximum of the solar cycle.

The satellite has lasted longer than expected, perhaps because in 1984 it was reviewed by one of the ferry missions and has paid off. The last of them has been to measure gamma radiation from the supernova 1987 A.

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