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The Mars Global Surveyor is to fire its retrorocket on Sept. 11 to place the spacecraft into an initial orbit around Mars, which will be reduced by a four-month period of aerobraking to a final mapping orbit. The point of high anxiety will come on Sept. 9, when the dormant main engine system is...
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