The last 20 Km of missions like these are the hard ones, once you're off the pad. It's roughly 1/3rd between failure to launch, failure to arrive at the destination planet and failure to land (the latter not applicable here since it is an orbiter).
60% of the missions fail, which really isn't all that surprising given the complexities of a project like this.
Great to see it got this far, hoping that it will complete the interplanetary travel part of the mission around September of this year.
60% of the missions fail, which really isn't all that surprising given the complexities of a project like this.
Great to see it got this far, hoping that it will complete the interplanetary travel part of the mission around September of this year.
Lots of data here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission