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The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence
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The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence

by Adil F. Dalal
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
692 pages
21h 25m
English
Productivity Press
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Pillar X: Learn from Failures ◾  497
Table 10.3 Case Study and Root Cause Analysis on the Crash of NASA’s Mass Climate Orbiter (MCO)
Crash of NASA’s MCO—A $125 Million Failure Reference
The failure On September 23, 1999, the MCO, with an estimated cost of $125 
million, went off course by approximately 60 miles and crashed into 
the atmosphere of the Red Planet and was lost in space. The 
primary mission of the MCO was to monitor the Martian 
atmosphere, surface, and polar caps for 1 Martian year, or 687 Earth 
days
Source: Dan Sorid, September 30, 1999. 
Human Error Doomed Mars Climate orbiter 
(MCO). http://www.space.com/news/orbiter_
error_990930.html (accessed Nov ...
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