Mars Orbiter Launch Delayed

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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Re:Spheroid Earth and Launch Windows

[databyss]

Actually it has to do with the Earths rotation and orbit around the sun.

There wouldn't be only 1.5 hours a day if it didn't matter on the rotation of the Earth. It would then be anytime within these dates.

1 Earth rotation = 1 Day.
1 Earth revolution around the sun = 1 Year

They'd better hurry this up

[durbnpoisn]

At the rate we are chopping down rain forrests and killing the atmosphere with fossil fuels, we are really going to need to consider colonizing Mars.

So, they'd better this shit fixed and let's get moving already.