September 24, 1999
Flight controllers for NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter are
planning to abandon the search for the spacecraft at 3 p.m.
Pacific Daylight Time today. The team has been using the 70-
meter-diameter (230-foot) antennas of the Deep Space Network in
an attempt to regain contact with the spacecraft.
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September 23, 1999
Mars Climate Orbiter is believed to be lost due to a
suspected navigation error.
Early this morning at about 2 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time the
orbiter fired its main engine to go into orbit around the planet.
All the information coming from the spacecraft leading up to that
point looked normal. The engine burn began as planned five
minutes before the spacecraft passed behind the planet as seen
from Earth. Flight controllers did not detect a signal when the
spacecraft was expected to come out from behind the planet.
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