From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2003 - 11:08:02 PST
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Mars Express enters orbit around Red Planet
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Posted: Thu, Dec 25 9:31 AM ET (1431 GMT)
ESA's Mars Express spacecraft successfully entered orbit
around the planet Mars early Thursday. The spacecraft, ESA's
first mission to the Red Planet, fired its main engine at
9:47 pm EST Wednesday (0247 GMT Thursday) for 37 minutes to
inject the spacecraft into orbit around the planet. The
spacecraft is currently in an elliptical orbit with an
average altitude of several thousand kilometers. The
spacecraft will alter its orbit on December 30 to enter a
300x10000 km polar orbit. Mars Express will also be
available starting in early January to communicate with the
Beagle 2 lander, provided that the lander is operating.
Related Links:
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SPACE.com article:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/mars_update_031225a.html
AP article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=2&u=/ap/20031225/ap_on_sc/mars_mission
The Cosmic Mirror mission updates:
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/267.html
Spaceflight Now mission status center:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/status.html
ESA press release:
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMAD8374OD_index_0.html
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