Mars Climate Orbiter: Phase I Report (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781608880638)

The MCO Mission objective was to orbit Mars as the first interplanetary weather satellite and provide a communications relay for the MPL which is due to reach Mars in December 1999. The MCO was launched on December 11, 1998, and was lost sometime following the spacecraft's entry into Mars occultation during the Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) maneuver. The spacecraft's carrier signal was last seen at approximately 09:04:52 UTC on Thursday, September 23, 1999. The MCO MIB has determined that the root cause for the loss of the MCO spacecraft was the failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file, "Small Forces," used in trajectory models.

Author: Pagekicker Robot Eddington,Mishap Investigation Board
ISBN-10: 160888063X
ISBN-13: 9781608880638
Publisher: Nimble Books
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2013
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d