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$170 Million Russian Probe Lost!

Posted Dec 05, 2011 by Member 26835147

Russian officials on Tuesday acknowledged that the chances of fixing a space probe bound for a moon of Mars that got stuck in Earth's orbit are close to zero, Russian news agencies reported. The unmanned $170 million Phobos-Ground was launched two weeks ago and reached preliminary Earth orbit, but its engines never fired to send it off to the Red Planet. Russian engineers have been trying to retrieve data from the probe as it passes over their territory but haven't established contact. Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/phobos-grunt-mars-moon-probe_n_1107386.html

Space Technology, Mars Probes
russian equipment, shock & awe, rockets, equipment, russia, space
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