Japanese Mars mission 'abandoned'

Posted by tourdemars to Nozomi at December 9, 2003 12:00 PM

Japan has given up on its first interplanetary space mission on the final leg of the journey to Mars. Officials have decided not to put the Nozomi space craft into orbit around the planet. Last-ditch attempts to fix an onboard electrical fault have failed, and the probe will be steered off into space.