Who-Mars Global Surveyor
What-Human error caused a surge of events which caused the battery on the Surveyor to ultimatley fail and shut down.
Where-Mars' atmosphere
When-Last year(It was only just posted recently)
Why-The problems actually began in 2005 when routine tech. updates caused inconsistencies in the computers memory.Engineers also tried to fix the problem 6 months before it shut down by updating it, but installed the wrong hardware and disabled its solar panels.And several attemepts to try and locate the surveyor were unsuccessful and the surveyor was deemed lost and doomed.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/13/mars.surveyor.ap/index.html
This space probe was built and launched at a price tag of $154 million , and it took only a team of careless engineers to bring that money to a waste, I really believe this was a stupid ordeal and could have been avoided by more careful inspections, what a waste of money.
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