| Mars Climate Orbiter: Phase I Report Contributor(s): Pagekicker Robot Eddington (Author), Mishap Investigation Board (Author) |
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ISBN: 160888063X ISBN-13: 9781608880638 Publisher: Nimble Books OUR PRICE: $9.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - Quality Assurance & Testing |
| Physical Information: 0.11" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.33 lbs) 54 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |