Why the Mars probe [accident investigation].

Why the Mars probe [accident investigation].

On 23 September, through a series of still-baffling errors, flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a California Institute of Technology facility under contract to NASA, sent erroneous steering commands to the Mars Climate Observer as it neared the target planet. Obeying blindly like al...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 36, 12 (1999).
Main Author: Oberg, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
IEEE Spectrum.
Mars Climate Observer.
Mars probe.
NASA.
Accident investigation.
Programme management.
Project management.
Space research.