[CTRL] Contact Lost with Mars Probe
-Caveat Lector- NASA Loses Contact With Mars Probe By MATTHEW FORDAHL .c The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's first interplanetary weather satellite failed to re-establish contact with Earth early today after it was supposed to complete an engine procedure to place it in orbit around Mars. The Mars Climate Orbiter, one of two probes scheduled to arrive at the red planet this year to study the weather and search for evidence of water, should have regained contact with Earth at 2:26 a.m. ``We're ... not quite sure what's happening,'' said project manager Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a half-hour after the signal was to be received on Earth. The probe was behind the planet - and out of radio contact - during most of the 17-minute engine firing that should have placed it in orbit. Contact should have been established by 2:30 a.m. at the latest. Mission organizers were scrambling to regain contact and said several features aboard the probe were designed to reconnect it with Earth in case of a computer shutdown or other common spacecraft problems. ``At this point, we're still confident we're going to see the spacecraft signal in the next few hours,'' Cook said. The orbiter and its companion, the Mars Polar Lander, carry instruments designed to discover the fate of water believed to have once formed rivers or lakes on the planet. Mission scientists say water is the key to determining whether life ever existed on Mars. The lander, which was launched separately, is due to arrive Dec. 3. The 1,387-pound orbiter was to have fired its main engine early today, slowing the spacecraft to 9,840 mph from its interplanetary cruising speed of 12,300 mph. Within about a half-hour, the craft was to signal that it was not zooming past Mars or plunging to the surface. The signal takes 11 minutes to cross the 121.9 million miles to Earth. The craft is supposed to establish an elliptical orbit and then, over 45 days, dip into the planet's thin atmosphere and use the drag to make its course more circular. By mid-November, the probe was to be in a 262-mile-high orbit and ready to relay data between Earth and the Mars Polar Lander when it arrives a few weeks later. Both probes are part of a $327.5 million mission collectively known as Mars Surveyor '98, NASA's latest in a series of relatively inexpensive robot probes. The orbiter rocketed into space last Dec. 11 and its sibling probe was launched Jan. 3. In 1997, Mars Pathfinder and its rover, Sojourner, explored the geology of the planet and found some evidence that water may once have flowed. The Mars Global Surveyor, which arrived later that year, mapped the surface and found more signs of once-flowing water. The Mars Climate Orbiter is equipped with two instruments that will be turned on after the probe has finished relaying data from the lander. Observations will continue for 687 days - a full Martian year. The Mars Color Imager will take wide- and medium-angle snapshots of the planet's atmosphere similar to an Earth-based weather satellite. Another instrument called the Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer will measure temperatures, dust, water vapor and clouds from the Martian surface to above the horizon. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Contact Lost with Mars Probe
-Caveat Lector- NASA Loses Contact With Mars Probe The Royal Martian Airforce strikes yet again :) Andrew DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Contact Lost with Mars Probe
-Caveat Lector- Yup they don't want us to see what is there huh Eyes Wide Shut Peter We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b - Original Message - From: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Contact Lost with Mars Probe -Caveat Lector- NASA Loses Contact With Mars Probe The Royal Martian Airforce strikes yet again :) Andrew DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Contact Lost with Mars Probe
-Caveat Lector- I think this is just TOO SWEET. Does anyone still doubt that there is something funny going on with Mars and the fact that so many probes and ships have been lost after they arrived? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om