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The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft will be launched toward Mars in November 1996. This mission is the first in the NASA Mars Surveyor Program and has been under development for the past two years. In this report the status of the MGS mission, three months prior to launch, will be described along with three specific topics: aerobraking, the lander to orbiter relay and the common operations...