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Dmirty Rogozin wants to investigate the failure of the Phobos Grunt space mission

Moscow, Russia - It seems that the probe reentered the atmosphere yesterday 15 January 2012

Russia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that he will oversee and investigate into the reasons for the Phobos-Grunt failure, a Russian space mission intended to return to Earth after collecting samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was launched on November 9 but got stuck in Earth orbit due to propulsion f...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1136957
Rome, Italy, 01/16/2012 18:24
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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