Array structure on Mars orbiter broken; JPL sets workaround
The composite yoke that supports a troublesome solar array on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor apparently has fractured, but controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have settled on a plan for aerobraking the probe into a circular orbit despite the damage and then capturing most of the images and...
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