July 24 (UPI) --Nearly five years after it launched, NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer -- or ICON -- mission has officially come to an end, the space agency announced Wednesday. NASA's ICON ...
In 2019, NASA’s ICON mission sent a 600-pound toddler-sized spacecraft 360 miles off the ground and into the ionosphere, the poorly understood uppermost stratum of the atmosphere. ICON beamed back a ...
NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission has ended after nearly five years of advancing the understanding of Earth’s interface to space. The mission studied the outermost layer of Earth’s ...