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NASA has appointed a kind of outer-space swat team to figure out how to make up for the scientific gap left by the loss of Mars Observer. The team, which includes all-around space guy Carl Sagan, will look into whether cheaper, less complex space probes can map Mars...
Mars Observer vanishes, and NASA feels the heat -- again
The reason Mars Observer had gone abruptly off the air the previous Saturday evening may never be known, although engineers suspect faulty transistors in the clocks that govern all the probe's electronics. And the ship's whereabouts are anybody's guess. It could be in orbit around the Red...
Whatever the reason, the first U.S. mission to Mars in nearly two decades, a $980 million attempt to study the Martian surface and atmosphere in detail and pave the way for later missions and human exploration, is lost in space. Gone with it is another chunk of NASA's eroding...
Until the last minute, JPL flight controllers hoped to pull off a similar coup with Observer. But none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that...