Satellite News

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.

NASA has cancelled its decision to roll the Space Shuttle Atlantis off its launch pad and back inside the protection of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.