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Re: MCO
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- Subject: Re: MCO
- From: WBranchsb@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:04:02 EDT
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>Somebody just told me that they had heard that MCO was lost yesterday.
>Is this true? I have not heard anything of it, and usually this list is an
>excellent source of JPL information.
Hello Gene,
Yes, it is true. Due to a navigational (i.e., human) error it dipped down
too low into the Martian atmosphere when it went behind the planet and most
likely broke up. The signal was not aquired at the time it was expected to
come out from around the planet's limb and engineers believe this is what
happened.
Reminds me of what happend to Mars Observer of a few years ago.
Out of around 20 missions to Mars about a dozen have been failures.
-Walter Branch
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