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RIP, Van Allen Probes! NASA Ends 7-Year Mission to Explore Earth's Radiation Belts
RIP, Van Allen Probes! NASA Ends 7-Year Mission to Explore Earth's Radiation Belts
Monday, February 3, 2020
Another long-lived NASA mission has come to an end, this one after more than seven years of dancing through the perilous belts of radiation around Earth.
Mission scientists sent the final command to the second Van Allen Probe today (Oct. 18) at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT). The twin spacecraft launched in August 2012 to study space weather, the sometimes-dramatic phenomena caused by the sun's influence on Earth's environment. (The other Van Allen Probe received its last command on July 19.)
