The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere, …

May 14, 2020 · In fact, managers crosschecked the problems discovered with the Mars Climate Orbiter with the Mars Polar Lander. It too was also on its way to Mars in 1999. Although it …

Oct 1, 1999 · NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft …

Nov 2, 2024 · An artist’s concept of Mars Climate Orbiter.

Nov 10, 1999 · Unfortunately for MCO, the root cause was not caught by the processes in-place in the MCO project. A summary of the findings, contributing causes and MPL …

Dec 8, 2023 · In September of 1999, after almost 10 months of travel to Mars, the Mars Climate Orbiter burned and broke into pieces. On a day when NASA engineers were expecting to …

Sep 30, 1999 · NASA officials today cast blame for the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter on a misunderstanding over which units--English or metric--were being used to fine-tune the …

Dec 11, 1998 · Designed to study Mars from orbit and serve as a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter was unsuccessful due …

Sep 23, 1999 · At 09:01 UT (5:01 a.m. EDT), Thursday, 23 September 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) fired its main engine to begin its insertion into Mars orbit. Five minutes later the …

Wide-ranging managerial and technical actions are underway at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, in response to the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter and the initial …