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On August 21, 1993, during the interplanetary cruise phase, communication with the spacecraft was lost, three days prior to the probe's orbital insertion. Attempts to re-establish communications with the spacecraft were unsuccessful. In 1984, a high priority mission to Mars was set forth by the Solar System Exploration Committee.
5 sty 1994 · Several potential causes that may have been responsible for the loss of the Mars Observer spacecraft last August have been identified by a special review board at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An independent investigative board presented its final report on the failure of the Mars Observer mission to NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin on January 5. Communication with the spacecraft, which had been launched in September 1992, was lost on August 21, 1993, as NASA controllers prepared it to enter Mars orbit.
Unravel the unsettling tale of the Mars Observer, NASA's ambitious mission that vanished moments before its crucial rendezvous with Mars, leaving questions a...
A federal panel investigating the disappearance of NASA’s Mars Observer space probe concluded Wednesday that the spacecraft leaked enough fuel--barely two tablespoonfuls--to cause an...
21 sty 1994 · Communication with the spacecraft, which had been launched in September 1992, was lost on August 21, 1993, as NASA controllers prepared it to enter Mars orbit.
21 sie 2007 · Photo: Corbis 1993: NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer, a scientific probe sent to study the geology and climate of the red planet. Contact with the craft is never re-established, and...
