The first of the six satellites engaged with this project – OGO-1 – has simply crash-landed back on Earth following 56 years in circle.

Each OGO rocket was created to study the developments of Earth, and decide how our planet interfaces with the sun.

The satellites stayed robust in that mission a strong five years before NASA shut the task down.

Unfortunately, at that point, the office did not have a reliable method to recover satellites from orbit, so for the past 50+ years, we’ve recently been trusting that the satellite will come back to Earth of their own accord.

OGO-1 finally did as such on August 29, after revealing its effect direction to University of Arizona scientists a couple of days earlier.

The spacecraft has landed southeast of Tahiti, which would put it (or whatever is left of it after its entry burn) some place close to Australia in the Pacific Ocean.

Somehow or another, it’s the finish of a time. The OGO venture was propelled back when Earth was all the while getting its balance with respect to space tech – Neil Armstrong hadn’t set foot on the Moon at that point.

We’ve certainly made considerable progress from that point forward. Nowadays, we routinely send re-usable gracefully rockets to the International Space Station, and our satellite innovation is sufficiently modern to permit us to de-orbit the items freely, without the need to sit tight for a 50-year crash landing.