Mars Climate Orbiter feared lost on arrival at planet
NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared early yesterday when it should have entered an aerobraking orbit around the Red Planet, and controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory feared a navigation error had sent the spacecraft so deep into the atmosphere it was destroyed instead of merely slowed...
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