{"id":443,"date":"2005-08-10T23:26:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/10\/nasa-blows-another-one\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:26:51","slug":"nasa-blows-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/10\/nasa-blows-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Blows Another One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The coldest instrument ever to fly into space has
\n unexpectedly lost its liquid helium coolant – rendering it useless. The
\n mishap occurred just a month after it was launched on a Japanese X-ray
\n satellite on 10 July 2005.<\/p>\n

The instrument, called the X-ray Spectrometer (XRS), was one of three X-ray
\n detectors to launch aboard Japan’s Astro-E2 mission. The mission has since
\n been renamed Suzaku.<\/p>\n

XRS was to operate at temperatures of just 0.06 kelvin (0.06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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