Jan 13 1999
From The Space Library
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced that the plutonium-powered Cassini spacecraft]], en route to Saturn, had entered safe mode on 11 January. The craft, NASA's largest and most complex interplanetary probe, had detected a possible error in its orientation, which prompted it to halt all "non-critical" activity, while maintaining its communications link with Earth.
JPL appointed Glenn E. Cunningham, Manager of NASA's Mars Surveyor Operations Project, as the new Deputy Director of JPL's Mars Exploration Directorate. In the newly created position, JPL tasked Cunningham with overseeing the implementation and operations of all Mars missions through 2013. As Cunningham's successor, JPL appointed Richard A. Cook, former Flight Operations Manager for the 1997 Mars Pathfinder Lander and Rover Mission, to manage the Mars Surveyor Operations Project.
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