Jul 2 1997
From The Space Library
NASA announced its plan to compensate for the failure of Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) with NASA's weather instruments aboard, admitting that the loss of the spacecraft was "a real blow to NASA's science program." Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) had declared the ADEOS lost on 30 June 1997. NASA scientists had been using the satellite to gather data about weather patterns and climate change. NASA resolutely pledged to continue working with NASDA despite the setback, highlighting plans to send up a second scatterometer aboard ADEOS 11 in 1999. Michael B. Mann, Deputy Associate Administrator of the Mission to Planet Earth Strategic Enterprise, qualified the failure saying, "The collaboration between NASDA and NASA on this mission has been outstanding ... space operations is a risky business; those of us involved in the business strive to limit the risk but sometimes mishaps do occur.
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