Mars Climate Orbiter

The Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was permanently lost as it went into orbital insertion. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, and it was destroyed in the atmosphere. An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two measurement systems: SI units (metric) by NASA and US customary units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin.

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1998  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter
space probe, robotic spacecraft, Delta II, 

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1998-12-11T00:00:00Z

1998-12-11T00:00:00Z

1998 Mars Climate Orbiter

1998-12-11T00:00:00Z

1998-12-11T00:00:00Z

rocket launch

1999-09-23T00:00:00Z

1999-09-23T00:00:00Z

atmospheric entry

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Frameless

Mars Climate Orbiter - Configuracao de aerobreque

Mars Climate Orbiter - Configuracao de cruzeiro

Mars Climate Orbiter 2

Mars Climate Orbiter 1

Climate monitoring satellite over Mars, Artistic depiction

Mars Climate Orbiter during tests

Mars Climate orbiter - awaiting spin test - mco9811165

Mars climate orbiter-2

1999 Events montage 16-grid version

• Why projects fail? How contingency theory can provide new insights – A comparative analysis of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter loss - scientific article published in October 2009, Q1860

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Mars Climate Orbiter - Configuracao de aerobreque		Commons
commons	image		Mars Climate Orbiter - Configuracao de cruzeiro		Commons
commons	image		Mars Climate Orbiter 2		Commons
commons	image		Mars Climate Orbiter 1		Commons
commons	image		Climate monitoring satellite over Mars, Artistic depiction		Commons
commons	image		Mars Climate Orbiter during tests		Commons
commons	image		Mars Climate orbiter - awaiting spin test - mco9811165		Commons
commons	image		Mars climate orbiter-2		Commons
commons	image		1999 Events montage 16-grid version		Commons