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It's time to say goodbye to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Here's why.

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From Space.com:
"How does NASA know it's time to end a mission? For the Spitzer Space Telescope, the agency can blame it on the spacecraft's juice."

https://www.space.com/why-spitzer-space ... t-end.html

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