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NASA reworks its sums after Mars fiasco

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The spacecraft was lost on 23 September, when a targeting error sent it into, rather than safely above, the Martian atmosphere as it was about to enter orbit (see Nature 401, 415; 1999). The spacecraft was either destroyed or skipped off the atmosphere into an unknown orbit around the Sun.

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