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Russia fails to make contact with Mars moon probe
Sunday November 13, 2011 09:53:24 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Russia has again been unsuccessful in its attempt to establish
contact with its Phobos Grunt probe, whose engines failed to put
in on course for Mars after take-off, a source in the space rocket
industry said Saturday.
The craft, designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the
Martian moon, Phobos, is currently stuck in a "support orbit." It
blasted off from the Baikonour Space Centre in Kazakhstan on
Wednesday.
"Attempts to make contact were made overnight and this morning by
Russian specialists from the European Space Agency. This was done
from Baikonour and other tracking areas, but contact was not
established," the source said.
He also said Russia was being assisted by US scientists and had
until Nov 21 to make contact.
The Phobos-Grunt is also carrying China's first Mars satellite,
Yinghuo-1.
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