Phobos-Grunt
Teasing the Galactic Ghoul, Past and Present
The close call experienced by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is only one of the most recent brushes with catastrophe…
Adventures in Satspotting: Why Are Different Orbits Needed for Satellites?
Congratulations: perhaps you’re a new space-faring nation, looking to place a shiny new payload around the planet Earth. You’ve assembled…
Russia’s Second Shot at Phobos May Return Bits of Mars As Well
After the tragic failure of the first Phobos-Grunt mission to even make it out of low-Earth orbit, the Russian space…
Rocket Failures May Spur Change In Russian Federal Space Agency: Report
It appears that the Russian government wants to take action over the string of unmanned mission failures beleaguering Roscosmos, or…
Phobos-Grunt Failure Due to Computer Problems, Cosmic Rays
[/caption] Roscosmos said today that a computer malfunction caused by cosmic rays was the reason for the failure of the…
Russia To Try Again For Phobos-Grunt?
[/caption] Russia says "eish odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin. If the European…
Few Details in ESA’s Report on Phobos-Grunt Re-Entry
[/caption] A week and a half after the re-entry of Russia’s Phobos–Grunt probe, experts have now made an official statement…
Doomed Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission Destructively Plunges to Earth
[/caption] Story and Crash Zone Map updated 1 p.m. EST Jan 16 Today (Jan. 15) was the last day of…
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…
Phobos-Grunt Predicted to Fall in Afghanistan on January 14
[/caption] According to a news report in RiaNovosti, Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall January 14th, "somewhere between 30.7 degrees north…