Sentences with phrase «orbit insertion in»

MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.

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That mission unfortunately failed last year [a solar storm caused a short circuit in one of the subsystems and a loss of telemetry signal, which made the Mars orbit insertion impossible] but many doors of collaboration were opened through that project.

Mars Observer, launched in 1992, was just three days from its planned orbit insertion around the Red Planet when NASA lost contact with it on Aug. 21, 1993.

Juno, about the size of a basketball court, successfully entered orbit around Jupiter in a procedure called Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI), after completing a 1.76 - billion - mile journey from Eorbit around Jupiter in a procedure called Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI), after completing a 1.76 - billion - mile journey from EOrbit Insertion (JOI), after completing a 1.76 - billion - mile journey from Earth.

MGS was launched in 1996 and the MOC was operated by MSSS for 10 years — from calibration and Mars meteorological imaging during the interplanetary cruise phase, through the spacecraft orbit insertion aerobraking period, the MGS primary mission, and multiple extended missions.