DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Mars orbiter
State: Spacecraft failure
Place: Mars
Operator: NASA / JPL
Date
Start:
Duration: 331 daysMission failure
Mission Ending
Last Contact: August 21, 1993, 01:00 (1993-08-21UTC02Z) UTC
Rocket
Rocket: Commercial Titan III/TOS
Kind: NASA / JPL
Manufacturer: General Electric Astro Space
Mass: 1,018 kilograms (2,244 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-40
Flyby
1º Flyby: Mars (failed insertion)
Orbit
Reference System: Areocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
The Mars Observer spacecraft, also known as the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter, was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on September 25, 1992, to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field. During the interplanetary cruise phase, communication with the spacecraft was lost on August 21, 1993, three days prior to orbital insertion. Attempts to re-establish communication with the spacecraft were unsuccessful.
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