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| Orbiter Launches
December 10, 1998 |
Lander Launches
January 3, 1999 |
The Mars Surveyor Program for the 1998 Earth-Mars transfer opportunity
consists of a lander and an orbiter mission both managed by the 1998 Mars
Surveyor Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA. The orbiter
and lander spacecraft will be launched in December 1998 and January 1999
respectively, on separate Med-Lite launch vehicles (Delta 7425 configuration)
procured by NASA from McDonnell Douglas. The general science theme for the
1998 Surveyor misions is "Volatiles and Climate History." The
specific science payload elements for the lander and orbiter missions were
selected by NASA through a competitive announcement of opportunity in October
1995. The 1998 Surveyor spacecraft is being procured from Lockheed Martin
Astronautics of Denver, Colorado, via a single system contract for both
the lander and orbiter flight systems. |
