Mars Global Surveyor aerobraking extended
NASA plans to resume aerobraking operations with the Mars Global Surveyor on Nov. 7, but the maneuver will take longer than first planned, and a new final orbit around Mars will have to be found. Earlier this month, NASA was forced to halt aerobraking after it was discovered that one of the probe's...
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