NASA retires IMP spacecraft after 28 years of duty
NASA has retired the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP 8) spacecraft after 28 years of rough duty. IMP 8 was built and operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which launched it in 1973. The spacecraft is the last of a series of IMP spacecraft that provided space...
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