In an open letter Thursday (Dec. 8), a prominent Russian scientist lamented the failure of the country's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was meant to collect samples from Mars' moon Phobos, but instead ...
PHOBOS-GRUNT: Hope is dimming for Russia’s Phobos-Grunt probe, which remains stranded in Earth orbit after an unknown failure prevented the ambitious sample-return mission from firing its engines and ...
Space junk experts have confirmed when and where the wayward Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt re-entered the atmosphere and crashed back to Earth. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...