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Originally Posted by tlbs101
What I still want to know is; might there be enough fuel left after MOI burn, aerobraking maneuvers, and science gathering station keeping maneuvers, to increase the orbital altitude to a higher, more useful comm-relay orbit?
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An article in the
Washington Post today indicates that that's the plan after a Mars year with science as the primary mission. But I assume that they'll keep taking pictures of Mars even when it's primarily a comm satellite.