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…

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago