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Published online 19 November 2008 | Nature 456, 292 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456292a

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Satellite risks losing sight of Earth

Agencies to decide if grounded mission should fly as solar probe instead.

NASA is scrambling to work out what to do with a US$100-million Earth-science satellite that has been sitting on a sanitized shelf in Greenbelt, Maryland, for nearly eight years.

Last month, President George W.

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