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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Mars Observer Update - 11/06/92
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 12:03:50 GMT
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- MARS OBSERVER MISSION STATUS
- November 6, 1992
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- The Mars Observer spacecraft team reports that all
- spacecraft subsystems continue to perform well. Instrument
- payload and payload data checkouts are continuing as planned.
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- The instrument calibration flight sequence currently under
- way will continue through Nov. 17, 1992. The Magnetometer and
- Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument teams are receiving early
- cruise calibration data. The Mars Observer Camera "bakeout" to
- prepare the camera for operation will continue through Dec. 26,
- 1992. New spacecraft activities are expected to be minimal over
- the next several days.
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- Today the spacecraft is about 12 million kilometers (7.5
- million miles) from Earth, traveling at a speed of about 11,800
- kilometers per hour (7,500 miles per hour) relative to Earth.
- The spacecraft is traveling at a heliocentric velocity of about
- 111,000 kilometers per hour (72,000 miles per hour).
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