*SNOE satellite to re-enter atmosphere in coming days* *UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-BOULDER NEWS RELEASE* Posted: December 2, 2003
A $5 million University of Colorado at Boulder satellite dubbed the "Little Satellite That Did" now is expected to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up in early December following a successful six-year mission.
The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer, or SNOE, is carrying instruments that have measured nitric oxide in the upper atmosphere that affects Earth's ozone layer, the intensity of X-rays from the sun and ultraviolet light from Earth's aurora. Developed at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics by students, engineers and faculty, the mission has been controlled from LASP's CU Research Park facility 24 hours a day by students and faculty since early 1998.
<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/02snoe/>
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