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- The European Space Agency is putting four of its most high-profile missions on hold as it deals with the coronavirus pandemic.
- With the health of its staff a top priority, the agency is keeping its employees at home and putting various spacecraft into safe mode to preserve resources for future science objectives.
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Just about every industry has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the globe. NASA is no different, having recently placed all of its facilities on lockdown and requiring that all but the most mission-critical employees work from home. Now, the European Space Agency is dealing with its own tough decisions in the wake of the crisis and has been forced to place four of its most high-tech pieces of space hardware to sleep... temporarily, of course.
The ESA made its announcement in a press release revealing that the Solar Orbiter, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Mars Express Orbiter, and a handful of other satellites orbiting Earth into "safe mode." That's really just a fancy way of saying they'll be put to sleep until the science teams responsible for them can begin science operations again.
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Coronavirus just forced the ESA to power down a bunch of spacecraft originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 22:15:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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