The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a -kilogram () 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 lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
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| - The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a -kilogram () 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 lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
- The Climate Orbiter was created to measure climate on the planet Mars, although every day is either sunny or dusty. These measurements would answer several pressing questions:
* Is Mars suffering from global warming?
* Is mankind, or the unrelated Industrial Revolution, to blame?
* Can NASA somehow fill some of the dead time during high-school science class?
* Is time running out, requiring us to act now??? The fact that the above questions were so pressing accounts for the change from the original name of the project, the Mars Kryptonite Orbiter.
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- (Unintentionally deorbited)
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| - The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a -kilogram () 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 lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
- The Climate Orbiter was created to measure climate on the planet Mars, although every day is either sunny or dusty. These measurements would answer several pressing questions:
* Is Mars suffering from global warming?
* Is mankind, or the unrelated Industrial Revolution, to blame?
* Can NASA somehow fill some of the dead time during high-school science class?
* Is time running out, requiring us to act now??? The fact that the above questions were so pressing accounts for the change from the original name of the project, the Mars Kryptonite Orbiter.
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