Podcast: Death of a Spacecraft

In the end, everything dies, even plucky space robots. Today we examine the last days of a series of missions. How do spacecraft tend to die, and what did in such heroes as Kepler, Spirit, and Galileo (the missions… not the people).

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"Death of a Spacecraft" on the Astronomy Cast website, with shownotes and transcript.

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