News tagged with mars probe
Russian cargo vessel takes off for space station
The Russian cargo ship Progress M-14M was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday, bringing water and fuel to the International Space Station, the mission control centre said.
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Russian Mars probe meets inglorious end in Pacific
Russia vowed Monday to expose the officials responsible for the failure of a Mars probe that the military said crashed into the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth for more than two months.
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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Uncertainty grows over Russia Mars probe crash site
Uncertainty about where a doomed Russian Mars probe might crash back to Earth grew Friday when the Roscosmos space agency changed its prediction thousands of miles (kilometres) from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...
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Jan 13, 2012 |
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Mars probe to crash into ocean Sunday: Russia
Russia's space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week.
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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Russia hints at foul play in its space failures
The head of Russia's beleaguered space programme hinted on Tuesday that foreign powers may be behind the string of failures that struck his agency in the past year.
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Jan 10, 2012 |
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Stranded Mars probe could fall to Earth in 11 days: report
Fragments of Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt could fall to Earth on January 15, the spokesman of Russia's military space forces told Russian news agencies on Wednesday.
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Jan 04, 2012 |
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ESA gives up bids to contact stranded Russian space probe
The European Space Agency said it will no longer try to make contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt if attempts made Friday fail.
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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Russia 'makes first contact' with stranded Mars probe (Update)
Russia on Thursday announced its scientists had for the first time made contact with its stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, a day after the European Space Agency said it had received a signal.
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Nov 24, 2011 |
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Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January
A Russian probe that was to visit a moon of Mars but is stuck in orbit around the Earth could burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in January, the head of the Russian space agency said Monday.
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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Russia still unable to communicate with Mars probe
Russian space engineers are still struggling to fix a probe bound for a moon of Mars that instead got stuck in Earth's orbit.
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Nov 13, 2011 |
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Russian craft embarks on voyage to Mars moon (Update)
A Russian probe on Wednesday set off on a three year return mission to Mars that aims to bring the first sample of a Martian moon back to Earth and re-establish Moscow as a power in planetary exploration. ...
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Nov 08, 2011 |
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Russia delays Mars probe launch until 2012: report
Russia will pushed back its flagship satellite mission to Mars' moon until 2011 in a move which will delay the joint launch of China's first Mars probe, space sources were cited as saying Wednesday.
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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