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Space & Planetary Science

MRO Still in Safe Mode After 6 Weeks

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 28, 2009
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Mars orbiter reported facing a potentially fatal scenario, Arizona Star
“While the engineers have not been able to find the root cause of why the orbiter did so on Aug. 26, they are seeing a pattern among the four occurrences this year. “In all four cases the most likely scenario is that … either one of the voltages wasn’t right or the part of the device that measures voltages indicated there was a problem and there wasn’t one,” Erickson said.”

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