Good to the last drop

[astroron]

NASA's Star Dust Space craft has finished it's final mission and and has been officially switched off.
http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/
Cheers

[CraigS]

Hmm .. I read that NASA's WISE telescope has taken its last measurement, too … decommissioned on February 17, 2011, when its transmitter was turned off.

Two old timers taken off line at around the same time !!
:sadeyes:

Yep … Ned Wright performed the Undertaker duties..

17 February 2011 — WISE Spacecraft (http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/news.html) transmitter turned at 12:00 noon PST by Principal Investigator Ned Wright. The Spacecraft will remain in hibernation without ground contacts awaiting possible future use.

Cheers

[astroron]

Both space craft did sterling work, and are a credit to the scientist and their makers:thumbsup:
Cheers

[CraigS]

Yes Ron;

From the report you posted:



Looks like they had to do the burn to get it into a "Planetary Protective" orbit !

Can't see why else they would have taken this path .. the cited reason was to see what would happen when they run the tanks dry, but that seems a bit hard to swallow ? :question:

Cheers

[steve000]

that's quite sad, bought a tear to my eye.