Mars Global Surveyor to Resume Aerobraking

Posted by jburk to Mars Global Surveyor at October 31, 1997 12:00 PM

After a two-week hiatus, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flight team will resume lowering the spacecraft's orbit around Mars beginning Nov. 7. The effort will proceed at a more gradual pace than before, which will extend the mission's aerobraking phase by several months, and will change Global Surveyor's final science mapping orbit.