Without power to fire the maneuvering thrusters its orbit will probably degrade fairly rapidly. Also, it's probably more expensive to get the fuel out during a complicated docking operation than it is to just get up new fuel for new missions as needed.
This sucks. It would have been a very cool mission.
The engines failed to fire. All those fuels are not being used. The probe is circling the Earth on inertia. After a while without power the orbit will deteriorate.
Hope they can get the engine to fire before it's too late.
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Even if it never heads off to Mars, if they can just get it into a stable orbit, having all of that fuel up there could come in handy later.
Without power to fire the maneuvering thrusters its orbit will probably degrade fairly rapidly. Also, it's probably more expensive to get the fuel out during a complicated docking operation than it is to just get up new fuel for new missions as needed.
This sucks. It would have been a very cool mission.
The engines failed to fire. All those fuels are not being used. The probe is circling the Earth on inertia. After a while without power the orbit will deteriorate.
Hope they can get the engine to fire before it's too late.