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After its primary mission of 29 months, observation operations were extended. In 2009, one of its detectors, which observed in far-ultraviolet light, stopped functioning.<ref name="SFN20120210"/> Late in the mission, observations of more intense UV sources were allowed, including the Kepler field.<ref name="SFN20120210"/>
Observation operations were extended to almost 9 years, with NASA placing it into standby mode on 7 February 2012.<ref name=UT>[http://www.universetoday.com/93409/galex-mission-comes-to-an-end/ ''GALEX Mission Comes to an End'' 7 February 2012 Universe Today]</ref> NASA cut off financial support for operations of GALEX in early February 2011 as it was ranked lower than other projects which were seeking a limited supply of funding. The mission's life-cycle cost to NASA was US$150.6 million. The [[California Institute of Technology]] (
On 28 June 2013, NASA decommissioned GALEX. It is expected that the spacecraft will remain in orbit for at least 65 years before it will re-enter the atmosphere.<ref name="Decommission">{{cite web |url=http://www.galex.caltech.edu/newsroom/glx2013-03r.html|title=NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft|publisher=CalTech|date=28 June 2013|access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="JPL">{{cite web|url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/galaxy-evolution-explorer-galex/|title=Mission to Universe: Galaxy Evolution Explorer|publisher=NASA|access-date=3 December 2021}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
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