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The Lost Satellite

April 8, 2011October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

In the late 1990s, NASA spent $250 million on a satellite designed to monitor climate change. The satellite has never flown. What happened?

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Edited by Seth Fletcher. Illustration by Matt Dartford.

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