Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars is Stuck in Earth Orbit After Engines Fail to F

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Phobos-Grunt and Upper Stage A model of the Phobos-Grunt probe with its upper state MKonair on Flickr

Engineers have three days to save the craft before its batteries run out A day after the successful launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian mission handlers are already scrambling to save their spacecraft from the fate that has befallen so many Russian Mars missions. Phobos-Grunt found orbit yesterday but then failed to fire the enginesBBC]




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