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Re: MCO
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- Subject: Re: MCO
- From: Tom Randall <trandall@idsi.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 14:47:31 -0400
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At 01:04 PM 9/25/99 EDT, you wrote:
>>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.
I heard it could have been a software issue too maybe.
>Reminds me of what happend to Mars Observer of a few years ago.
Well, the Mars observer blew some plumbing if I remember right.
>Out of around 20 missions to Mars about a dozen have been failures.
Are you sure? That many? Sounds too high. Ron you out there?
>-Walter Branch
Regards,
Tom Randall
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