Finished Missions
- OICETS, Technology Demonstration 2005–2009 (retired)
- SELENE, Moon probe 2007–2009 (retired)
- Micro Lab Sat 1, Small engineering mission, launch 2002. (retired 27 September 2006)
- HALCA, Space VLBI 1997–2005 (retired)
- Nozomi, Mars Mission 1998–2003 (failed)
- MDS-1, Technology Demonstration 2002–2003 (retired)
- ADEOS 2, (Midori 2) Earth Observation 2002–2003 (lost)
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Famous quotes containing the words finished and/or missions:
“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
The entire combustible world in one small room
As though dried straw, and if we turn about
The bare chimney is gone black out
Because the work had finished in that flare.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)