The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on May 12 shutdown the Advanced Land Ob-servineSatellite (ALOS) following threefweejis of fruitless attempts to communicate with the struggling satellite after it suffered a catastrophic loss of power April 22. The agency said it had sent a command to the satellite, also known as Daichi, to shut down its onboard transmitter and batteries at 10:50 a.m. May 12, permanently halting the 5-year-old satellite's mission. Finding what caused the sudden power feilure "is likely to take months radier than weeks," JAXA spokesman Eijiro Namura said May 12.
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