Concern over Mars Lander as inquiry reports on Orbiter loss

Tony Reichhardt

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6759, 221-222

Abstract: [WASHINGTON] A combination of understaffing, poor communication, lack of training, and other management problems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, ultimately doomed the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter, according to a report last week.

Date: 1999
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