Mars Climate Orbiter
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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.
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 | ||
