JPL will aerobrake Mars Global Surveyor despite loose array
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor will use its solar arrays to aerobrake into a circular orbit around the Red Planet this fall, despite a mechanical breakdown that has left one of the 11-foot arrays unlatched and tilted 20.5 degrees short of full deployment. Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have...
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