Guess where its engines came from

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Doug Ellison — 3/11/2006 10:27:20 AM (archived)

Little bit of obscure trivia - the main MOI engines were actually taken off the cancelled '01 Lander. That lander's since been re-born as Phoenix, but they're engineering new engines for that.

Doug

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MRO STATUS? - carl - 3/9/2006 10:43:53 PM
- GO GO GO.....MRO!!!!! - carl - 3/11/2006 3:22:19 PM
  - re: Patch - Raoul - 3/11/2006 5:03:53 PM
- 4 minutes till it is re-aquired after burn. (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:13:10 PM
  - everybody looks happy at JPL so it must have made it fine (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:19:09 PM
  - Re-aquired!! will take a few minutes to determine if it's on course (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:16:34 PM
    - The fact that they reacquired the signal exactly on time is a very good sign - Larry J - 3/10/2006 10:21:40 PM
      - re: The fact that they reacquired the signal exactly on time is a very good sign - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:35:26 PM
    - It lives! NASA TV rocks. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2006 10:17:43 PM
      - I'm hearing "right on the money" from controllers. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2006 10:18:17 PM
        
        Guess where its engines came from - Doug Ellison - 3/11/2006 10:27:20 AM
- Mars Orbital Insertion burn started on time - Larry J - 3/10/2006 9:26:14 PM
- re: MRO Engine problems....? - UhOh... - 3/10/2006 5:54:51 PM
  - Obviously, I heard wrong... - (blushing) - 3/10/2006 10:42:37 PM
  - nothing I've heard. - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2006 7:20:27 PM
    - burn started on time - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2006 9:32:51 PM
- About 200,000 kilometers from Mars - ljk - 3/10/2006 4:04:19 AM
  - Fingers crossed and hoping - carl - 3/10/2006 5:29:43 PM
    - MRO took a distant image of Deimos! - ljk - 3/10/2006 9:51:08 PM

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