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In 2006, NASA and France’s National Centre for Space Studies launched a satellite named CALIPSO. Through KJZZ's Q&AZ reporting project, a listener asked: Now that the satellite’s mission is over after 17 years orbiting Earth, what will happen to it?Dave Winker was the principal investigator for the CALIPSO mission, where he met professor John Reagan.They were both working with

After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA’s lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed.

The mission ended in early August, marking the conclusion of years of valuable scientific observations and discoveries.