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Polar satellite  

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  • The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar satellite was a NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched into orbit in February 1996, and continued operations until the program was terminated in April 2008. The spacecraft remains in orbit, though it is now inactive. Polar is the sister ship to GGS Wind. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_(satellite))

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