Newly launched spacecraft loses its cool

A half hour after launch, an infrared telescope vented its entire supply of frozen helium into space, ending the planned 4-month mission.

References:

1999. Wire science instrument runs out of hydrogen. NASA News Release. (March 8).

Sources:

James G. Watzin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop Code 410.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 12, March 20, 1999, p. 180. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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