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- At the end of every year, news sites publish memorials for all the important people the world has lost. But nobody ever mentions the space robots.
Yet in 2013, we had to say goodbye to a lot of great scientific space missions. Far too many space-based telescopes and Earth-observing satellites were either decommissioned, faced unexpected hardware failures, or simply ran out of fuel. That, coupled with the fact that NASA has fairly few future plans for robotic exploration, means a tremendous loss for researchers.