Human error caused loss of Mars Global Surveyor
Submit on Saturday, April 14th, 2007 05:01
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board.
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