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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."

3 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. haha! by emaneman · · Score: -1, Troll

    haha! fp or is it?

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    HAW HAW HAW
  2. Hi-Ho... Flying Debris For Mars... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah. It would be bad if the mission screwed up here instead of out there (again).

  3. funny! by mnemonic_ · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man, that's hilarious! They're Martians guys, get it? Ha ha!