BAIKONUR, November 9 (Itar-Tass) — The automatic interplanetary station (AIS) Phobos-Grunt (soil) has successfully separated from the carrier rocket Zenit (zenith)-2SB that blasted off from ...

and the Phobos Grunt mission launched in 2011, which was lost in Earth orbit shortly after launch. Accordingly, although Phobos and Deimos have been photographed, measured and had their geological, ...

The Bumerang/Expedition-M project is the repetition of the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) project that ended in a failure in 2011. The project aims to establish an interplanetary station to survey ...

In January 2012, concerns arose over the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere near Watford after a catastrophic ...

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