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There is propellant left, evidenced by the heating rate of the propellant tanks, but the pressurizing nitrogen has leaked, so it's unusable.

Instead of continuing the mission around the preferred Earth-Sun L1 orbit, they'll collect science data from the Earth-like orbit it's predicted to land in instead.



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