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Mars Climate Orbiter Spacecraft An artist's concept of the Mars Climate Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view |
Designed to study Mars from orbit and serve as a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter was unsuccessful due to a navigation error caused by a failure to translate English units to metric.
Last contact with the spacecraft was on September 23, 1999, 9 months after launch, and an investigation found that the spacecraft burned up in Mars' atmosphere.
- Mars Color Imager (MARCI)
- Pressure Modulated Infrared Radiometer (PMIRR)
| Type: | Orbiter |
| Status: | Past |
| Launch Date: | December 11, 1998 1:45 p.m. EST (18:45 UTC) |
| Launch Location: | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
| Mission End Date: | September 23, 1999 |
| Target: | Mars |
| Destination: | Mars |
| Current Location: | › Click to view
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