09 November 2011

Breaking News- Russian Mars Phobos-Grunt Mission Halted By Glitch in Low Earth Orbit

Breaking News-Russian Mars Mission Phobos-Grunt Halted By Glitch in Low Earth Orbit
Russian Mars mission halted by glitch in low Earth orbit
BY STEPHEN CLARK 
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
November 8, 2011
Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission, an audacious effort to retrieve (rock) samples from a Martian moon, is stranded in low Earth orbit following a successful liftoff Tuesday from Kazakhstan, according to Russian reports. ...
Russia trying to salvage Phobos-Grunt mission
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
November 9, 2011
One day after a Russian Mars probe was left stranded in low Earth orbit,
engineers planned to begin trying to save the mission Wednesday in hopes
the problem was a relatively simple software glitch. ...