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Mars Orbiter Launch Delayed

Posted by Zonk on from the waiting-for-major-tom dept.

Mictian writes "NASA's newest Mars probe, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), was originally scheduled to be launched from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday morning atop an Atlas 5 rocket. However a potential problem with the Atlas' Redundant Rate Gyro Units (RRGUs), that are part of the vehicle's flight control system, detected at Lockheed Martin's factory has caused the engineers to make sure that the two RRGUs in MRO's rocket are working, thus delaying the launch at least until Thursday morning. There is a 1.5 hour launch window daily until the end of the month."

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  1. Anyone else read that as lunch delayed by MPHellwig · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well?

  2. Cell phone explionsion by sushipants · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Once it's launched "Guy/Girl On Mobile:" submissions are expected to skyrocket.

  3. Re:Late Breaking News: by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, if you weren't such a karma whore, you'd probably make more friends here.

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  4. Re:Late Breaking News: by luna69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who the hell wants to make friends with some random screen name on /.?

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  5. Why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why must completely obvious acronyms be spelled out constantly? (WMCOABSOC)

  6. minus 4, Tr07l) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of pla7ing your