• NASA Made Contact with Satellite That’s Been Missing for 10 Years

    NASA Made Contact with Satellite That’s Been Missing for 10 Years

    NASA has just rediscovered a satellite that it lost in space over a decade ago. The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) was launched in 2000 to create the first comprehensive images of atmospheric plasma. It completed its initial mission in 2000, but it failed to make contact again in 2005.  Scientists had hoped an eclipse…