- 20:31 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday.
- 11:00 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday.
- 18:05 01/02/2012 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced the cause of the Phobos-Grunt space probe failure on Tuesday: it was a software malfunction in its onboard computer.
- 18:33 31/01/2012 VORONEZH, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday.
- 14:52 31/01/2012 VORONEZH, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
Space radiation triggered a glitch in the on-board computer system causing the recent crash of Russia’s Mars probe, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
- 04:49 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
A government commission has blamed Russian programmers for the recent failure of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars probe
- 12:36 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
NASA has refused to participate in an experiment designed to show if U.S. radars could have had an impact on Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the deputy head of the country’s space agency, Roscosmos, Anatoly Shylov said on Thursday.
- 01:19 20/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a U.S. radar.
- 10:23 19/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Valadimir Popovkin said on Thursday.
- 15:42 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
The theory that Russia’s Mars mission failed due to a U.S. radar is extremely “exotic,” Russian scientists said on Tuesday.
- 12:17 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) –
A Russian government commission inquiring into why the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe crashed this week is to test whether it was affected after launch by U.S. radars on its second orbit around the Earth, the commission said on Tuesday.
- 07:36 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
A powerful electromagnetic emission from a U.S. radar in the Pacific could have caused the malfunctioning of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday.
- 17:46 16/01/2012
A Paris-based amateur astronomer recorded a video of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spaceship on January 1. Phobos-Grunt, launched on November 9, was designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos. However, it got stuck in a so-called support orbit since its engines failed to put it on course for the Red Planet and fell back on Earth late on Sunday.
- 03:54 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said he will oversee the probe into the reasons of the Phobos-Grunt mission failure.
- 22:11 15/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti)
Doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday.
- 04:00 15/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti)
Doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months may finally come crashing down on January 15 over the Pasific Ocean, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday.
- 15:21 14/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti)
Doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months may finally come crashing down on Jan. 15 over the Pasific Ocean, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday.
- 15:34 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s troubled Phobos Grunt spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth between Sunday and Monday morning, the U.S. Strategic Command said on Friday.
- 18:19 11/01/2012
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth between January 14 and 16, possibly some place in the Indian Ocean.
- 17:52 11/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth between January 14 and 16, possibly some place in the Indian Ocean, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
- 04:43 10/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
Phobos-Grunt, a failed Russian sample mission to a Martian moon, was launched despite risks of which Russian scientists were well aware
- 16:23 26/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft bound for Mars and stuck in an orbit around Earth will fall in southwestern Afghanistan on January 14, the U.S. Strategic Command said on Monday.
- 14:06 16/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth in the period of January 6-19, Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Friday.
- 15:01 13/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, will not be able to complete its mission, the head and chief designer of the Lavochkin spacecraft construction bureau, Viktor Khartov, said on Tuesday.
- 04:50 13/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
A ESA station will make two more attempts to contact Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on Tuesday
- 15:07 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth on January 9, the United States Strategic Command said.
- 21:22 02/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti)
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday it had ended attempts to establish contact with Phobos-Grunt, Russia's failed probe to one of Mars' moons.
- 17:52 25/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti)
The European Space Agency (ESA) put off attempting to contact the stranded Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft until Monday, the head of the ESA office in Moscow said on Friday.
- 20:01 24/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday.
- 19:24 24/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Telemetry data received from a wayward Russian Mars probe is impossible to decipher, a space industry source said on Thursday.
- 02:22 24/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
The European tracking station in Perth, Australia, received telemetry from a Russian Mars probe that has been stuck at a low-Earth orbit since after its launch, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
- 20:00 23/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
A tracking station in Perth, Australia, will make five attempts early on Thursday to receive telemetry from a Russian Mars probe that has been stuck at a low-Earth orbit since after its launch, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
- 12:38 23/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has said it established contact with Russia’s Mars mission probe that is stranded circling Earth.
- 21:20 22/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Stations of the European Space Agency located in South America, Australia and the Canary Islands will try on Tuesday night to establish contact with the Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft that is stranded at a low-Earth orbit after launch, the managing directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
- 14:22 22/11/2011 MISSION CONTROL, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
If Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday.
- 13:26 22/11/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
The astronomical window for the Phobos-Grunt's mission to Mars has just about closed, believe space industry sources. The probe could still fly by the red planet, but the expedition to land on and then return to Earth from the Martian moon Phobos is a failure.
- 12:52 22/11/2011 MISSION CONTROL (Korolyov, Moscow Region) November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Federal Space Agency experts are puzzled by the rising orbit of the Phobos-Grunt unmanned Mars probe, Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov said on Tuesday.
- 01:26 21/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
The launch window to send Russia's Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft to a Mars moon will close on Monday, an airspace source told RIA Novosti.
- 19:40 15/11/2011
The first Russian inter-planetary probe in the past 15 years.
- 13:01 12/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has again been again unsuccessful in its attempts 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 told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
- 02:57 12/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft cannot be controlled at a low-Earth orbit, where it is currently stuck, because of its design features, a Russian space expert said on Saturday
- 01:22 12/11/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
On Thursday, November 10, mission control tried unsuccessfully to communicate with the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos Ground) probe which lifted off November 8.
- 12:00 11/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti)
Attempts during the night to receive a signal from the unmanned lander Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which failed to reach its orbit after separating from the launch vehicle on November 9, have so far been to no avail, a source in the space industry said on Friday.
- 15:39 09/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
Engineers have up to two weeks to correct the path of a Russian probe bound for Mars, a top space official said on Wednesday.
- 06:51 09/11/2011 BAIKONUR, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency said.
- 00:19 09/11/2011 BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), November 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia launched early on Wednesday a robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos in the nation's first attempt to carry out an interplanetary mission in 15 years.
- 11:13 08/11/2011 BAIKONUR SPACE CENTER (KAZAKHSTAN), November 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s ambitious mission to bring back soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos will pave the way for the exploration of the Red Planet, a scientist said on Tuesday.
- 20:07 15/05/2008
Phobos, a satellite of Mars, will become a ring around the Red Planet in a few million years, an Indian scientist has calculated.
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