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Key facts
- Names
- Mars Geoscience Climatology Orbiter
- Mission type
- Mars orbiter
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1992-063A
- Website
- science.nasa.gov
- Mission duration
- 330 days, Mission failure
- Bus
- Mars Observer bus (AS-4000-TIROS/DMSP hybrid)
- Manufacturer
- General Electric , Astro Space
- Launch mass
- 1,018 kg (2,244 lb)
- Power
- 1,147 watts
- Launch date
- September 25, 1992, 17:05:01 ( 1992-09-25UTC17:05:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Commercial Titan III / TOS
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-40
- Contractor
- Martin Marietta
- Last contact
- August 21, 1993, 01:00 ( 1993-08-21UTC02Z ) UTC
- Reference system
- Areocentric
- Semi major axis
- 3,766.159 km (2,340.183 mi)
- Inclination
- 92.869°
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- Image
- Mars Observer.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mars Observer
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1992-09-25
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Mars Observer was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on September 25, 1992, to study the surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field of Mars. The spacecraft was developed and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The project originated with a 1984 proposal for a new Mars mission, originally titled the Mars Geoscience Climatology Orbiter. As the first and ultimately only mission in the Planetary Observer program, its design was based on earlier Earth-orbiting satellites, including the TIROS and DMSP series. Seven scientific instruments were included.
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