• The JERS-1 spacecraft reentered around 67º south latitude and 20º west longitude over the south Antarctic offshore Antarctica on December 3, 2001 (information released by NASA).
• On Oct. 11, 1998 a malfunction occurred on JERS-1 (very probably an attitude control system failure) causing a termination of satellite operations. Hence, a total of about 6 1/2 years of observation time could be achieved with JERS-1 (with a design life of 2 years). - Already in August 1997, the JERS-1 spacecraft had lost the ability to record data, therefore limiting its coverage to areas within JERS-1 ground station masks.
2) The Japanese nickname for JERS-1 is Fuyo-1, the name of a Japanese flower.