Mars Global Surveyor Completes Over 25,000 Orbits And Continues to Rewrite the History Books on Mars; Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft for NASA Keeps Going and Going.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 June 2004-LOCKHEED MARTIN: Mars Global Surveyor Completes Over 25,000 Orbits And Continues to Rewrite the History Books on Mars; Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft for NASA Keeps Going and Going(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06072004 DENVER, Colo. - The venerable Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, completed its 25,000th orbit around Mars recently and is still going strong.

Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Mars exploration program, MGS achieved this major milestone May 26, demonstrating its yeoman's performance as the "big brother" of orbiters circling Mars and mapping the planet's surface since 1997, as no other Mars exploration spacecraft...