An artist's concept of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft nearing the Martian moon Phobos, something the failed probe never got to do. The Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar ...

Russia's doomed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt will likely fall to Earth in mid-January. Scientists predict at that 20 to 30 pieces of the 14-ton satellite will survive the fall.

Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which is stuck in low-Earth orbit due to an engine failure rather than on its way to Mars, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward probe ...

Phobos-Grunt spacecraft meant to reach Mars, never left Earth orbit. Jan. 15, 2012 — -- Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian ...

Phobos-Grunt is also carrying a Chinese probe, Yinhou-1, that would have orbited and studied Mars for two years. Hope not lost. It appears that Russia's Phobos sample-return mission will not be ...

Russia's marooned Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, currently stuck in orbit, is headed for a mid-January plunge into Earth's atmosphere, and more than two dozen pieces of the huge spacecraft could survive ...

Phobos-Grunt must then lift off, navigate Mars' orbit, fly back with a belly full of dirt and finally make a nail-biting atmospheric re-entry without a parachute or homing beacons.

Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on March 7, 2010, have been released. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 m per pixel. They show the ...

The European Space Agency announced today (Dec. 2) that it will stop trying to contact the beleaguered Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for almost a month now.

Phobos-Grunt probe in danger of falling back to Earth next month. Nov. 10, 2011 — -- Russia's space agency admitted it was racing the clock today to save its ambitious Mars probe, Phobos ...

The European Space Agency has managed to make contact with Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt space probe on two consecutive nights, the agency said on Thursday. The first successful attempt to contact ...

Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which is stuck in low-Earth orbit due to an engine failure rather than on its way to Mars, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward probe ...