Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter nears end of aerobraking
Submit on Friday, September 1st, 2006 07:00
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun the final and fastest-paced portion of its “aerobraking” process of using friction with the top of Mars’ atmosphere to shrink the spacecraft’s orbit. Meanwhile, the satellite has developed problems with a waveguide transfer switch.
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