# The 10-Month Curse: Two Dead Japanese Satellites, One Unresolved Mystery, and the 2027 Mission That Will Finally Look

- slug: the-10-month-curse-two-dead-japanese-satellites-one-unresolved-mystery-and-the-2027-mission-that
- date: 2026-04-16
- category: Space & Aerospace

ADEOS-II died 10 months after launch in 2003. Nobody knows why. In 2027, a Japanese inspection spacecraft will fly within meters of the wreckage — and the answers have been sitting there for 23 years.

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