Hinode was planned as a three-year mission to explore the magnetic fields of the Sun.
Lyons served a three-year mission in Worcester, England, and later emigrated to Utah Territory.
Lavigne concluded his three-year mission in June 2007 before being nominated at the Toulouse grande instance tribunal.
Together they served a three-year mission for LDS Church in Italy (1998-2001).
Landsat 5 significantly exceeded its designed life expectancy, lasting several decades beyond its original three-year mission.
NASA scientists are now trying to salvage the solar particles it gathered in its three-year, $264 million mission.
The satellite's planned three-year mission was to survey natural and human driven changes in the cryosphere on Earth.
Later he served a three-year mission to Japan, spending half of his time on Okinawa.
However, during his three-year mission to Sweden she ran the ranch herself, making day trips six or eight times a season to supervise the work.
Planned for a three-year mission, it proved much more durable, allowing extended observation from its instrument suite.