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Last week, NASA shut down the NEOWISE mission, after it had spent 10 years scanning the Solar System for potentially hazardous asteroids. Before this role, it was WISE, making infrared observations of the Universe, finding nearby brown dwarfs and dust-obscured galaxies across the Universe. NASA decided to end the mission because its declining altitude was already impacting its science operations. It'll burn up in the atmosphere in late 2024.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-mission-concludes-after-years-of-successful-asteroid-detections/