Mro On Approach, TCM-3 not required Options

[Redstone]

MRO has shifted from the cruise phase to Approach phase. Apparently, the trajectory is so good that TCM-3 was cancelled. This is good news for the prospects for a long life for MRO supporting future missions. TCM-4 is on Feb 28, and MOI on March 10. Only 5 weeks away!

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Feb. 17, 2006

Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-1726\1237

Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(818) 354-6278

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-029

NASA ANNOUNCES MARS MISSION BRIEFING

NASA will brief news media about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
mission at 1 p.m. EST, Friday. The event is in NASA's auditorium, 300
E Street SW, Washington.

The NASA spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Mars on March 10, 2006.
It will provide more information about the planet than all previous
NASA Mars missions combined. Participants will address mission goals
and the sequence of events necessary to successfully place the
vehicle into orbit around Mars.

Briefing Participants: Doug McCuistion, NASA Mars Exploration Program
Director, NASA Headquarters; Michael Meyer, NASA Mars Lead Scientist,
NASA Headquarters; James Graf, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project
Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Bob Berry,
Director, Space Exploration Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Co., Denver.

The briefing will air live on NASA TV, and the panel will take
questions from reporters at participating NASA centers. To ask phone
questions, reporters must call Jet Propulsion Laboratory media
relations by 5 p.m. EST, Tuesday at: (818) 354-5011 to obtain a
call-in number. To view a live webcast of the event and for more
mission information on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro

NASA TV's Public, Education and Media channels are available on an
MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72
degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical
polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they're on AMC-7 at 137 degrees
west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal
polarization. For digital downlink information on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


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