Equipment Checked as Mariner IV Heads to Mars
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 13:11
in Astronomy & Space
A series of commands were radioed 16-1/2 million miles to NASA's Mariner IV spacecraft early today by JPL engineers from the Mariner spaceflight operations center to check out spacecraft equipment that will be used if Mariner is still operating normally when it reaches Mars next July 14. The Goldstone station of the DSN was used to transmit the commands.