Sentences with phrase «into orbit around the red planet»

In 1993, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer satellite, presumed to have been disabled by an explosion in a fuel line as the craft tried to slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

Now, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that an ancient collision could have sent a ring of debris containing at least 100 small moons into orbit around the Red Planet, which eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos — Mars's two current moons.

On October 19, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, celebrated as their joint satellite ExoMars with its Trace Gas Explorer (TGO) slid into orbit around the red planet.

A European - built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven - month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown.

Not exact matches

A commercial effort to get humans into orbit around Mars in the late 2020s now includes a sleek vehicle to send astronauts down to the surface of the Red Planet.