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Russia to try again for Phobos-Grunt?

Russia says "eisho odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin.

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Russia Mars probe 'crashes into Pacific Ocean': military

Russia believes fragments of its Phobos-Grunt probe which spiralled back to Earth after failing to head on a mission to Mars crashed Sunday into the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for its space forces said.

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created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Russian space probe to crash to Earth within hours

(AP) -- A failed Russian probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars but stuck in Earth orbit will come crashing down within hours, likely in a shower of fragments that survive the fiery re-entry.

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created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

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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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 8

Russia says its spacecraft may crash into Atlantic

(AP) -- Russia's space agency has adjusted its forecast for the crash of a failed spacecraft, saying it may shower its fragments into the south Atlantic.

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Russian spacecraft to crash soon, risks unclear

(AP) -- A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever.

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

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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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Video: Phobos-Grunt re-entry animation

When and where will Russia’s Phobos-Grunt satellite crash back to Earth? It’s too early to tell, but the engineers from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have put together an animation which recaps what has happened ...

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Russian who helped put Gagarin in space dies at 99

One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99.

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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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created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt

Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos–Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ...

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created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Engineers fight for stranded Mars probe after 'sign of life' (Update)

Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 15

Awesome action animation depicts Russia’s bold robot retriever to Mars moon Phobos

In less than 48 hours, Russia’s bold Phobos-Grunt mechanized probe will embark on a historic flight to haul humanities first ever soil samples back from the tiny Martian moon Phobos. Liftoff from the ...

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created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Daring Russian sample return mission to Martian moon Phobos aims for November liftoff

In just over three weeks’ time, Russia plans to launch a bold mission to Mars whose objective, if successful , is to land on the Martian Moon Phobos and return a cargo of precious soil samples back to ...

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created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 11

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