Mars Climate Orbiter engineering failure vs very  successful  Mars Exploration Rovers missions Investigate the failed Mars Climate Orbiter mission by...

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Mars Climate Orbiter engineering failure vsvery  successful  Mars Exploration Roversmissions

Investigate the failed Mars Climate Orbiter mission by doingyour own on line research and by reading pages 160-161 in thetextbook(engneering fundemental by Saeed Moaveni) in advance of thelecture on chapter 6. Write a 2-page paper that summarizes whathappened. In this paper explain the follow-on precautions that weretaken to prevent a re-occurrence of the same issues, which led tothe three enormously successful Mars Exploration Rovers - Spiritand Opportunity and the recent Curiosity Rover Mission. Explain howthe Spirit and Opportunity missions and the Curiosity Rover missioncompared to the Mars Climate Orbiter mission from an engineeringperspective, especially relating to Chapter 6 in the textbook. (Wewill have just covered Chapter 6 the day the assignment is due, butjust consider the importance of correct engineering units, as wehave already discussed in class). DO NOT WAIT TO BEGIN YOURWRITE-UP until we cover Chapter 6 on 10/4!!! Also consider otherkey engineering issues studied in the Chapters 1-5 includingengineering ethics, engineering communications, and engineeringdesign. Give specific examples in all cases that identifies theengineering practices that worked along with those that did notwork (and why). Include a MLA-formatted reference list and in-textcitations. If you are unfamiliar with MLA see this site for help.The MLA source list does not count towards the 2-page write-up pagelimit. You should cite the textbook and the on line sourcesincluded in the assignment, plus any others that you use. Use theproper MLA format for on line sources and textbooks and in-textcitations.

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The Mars Climate Orbiter formerly the Mars Surveyor 98 Orbiter was a 338kilogram 745 lb robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11 1998 to study the Martian climate Martian atmosphere and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor 98 program for Mars Polar Lander However on September 23 1999 communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into    See Answer
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