The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency declared Thursday that it would quit attempting to alter the satellite in the wake of confirming that it was "profoundly likely" that its two sun powered clusters had severed at their bases.
Contact was lost with the satellite on March 26, over a month after its dispatch from southern Japan on February 17.
The satellite, named Hitomi, was much bigger than past Japanese exploratory satellites, measuring 14 meters (46 feet) long and weighing 2.7 tons. It was intended to study X-beams transmitted by dark openings and different articles in space. The X-beams can't be distinguished on Earth, since they are obstructed by its environment.
The space organization at first thought it had gotten signals from the lost satellite on three events, however later inferred that the frequencies of the interchanges showed they were not from Hitomi.
Nasa was an essential accomplice in the Japan-drove mission, which included eight different countries, including Canada and the Netherlands.
Japan's Kyodo News organization reported that Japan spent about JPY 31 billion ($290 million) on the venture, and Nasa had contributed about $70 million.
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