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 ...

Phobos-Grunt was designed for an ambitious mission to retrieve samples from Mars' moon Phobos, and return them to Earth, though it was also carrying a small payload from the Planetary Society, a ...

Phobos-Grunt is Russia’s first attempt to visit Mars in 15 years, and after launching successfully, the spacecraft failed to fire its engines and got stuck in Earth orbit.

Russia hopes to end a humiliating two-decade absence from deep space with the launch on Wednesday of an ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos.

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 flyby images: proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 03 / 100315125645.htm ...

The £100 million Phobos-Grunt mission is haunted by memories of past failures in Moscow's efforts to explore Mars and its moons. Maxim Martynov, ...

Several planned missions to visit directly, such as Phobos 1 and 2 and, more recently, Phobos Grunt, have failed in space, ...

If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars moon sampling mission fails to reach Mars, it's worth launching a copy of the spacecraft on a second try, one of the science team members says.

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 is the 19th spacecraft Russia has launched toward Mars since 1960. To date, none has achieved full mission success. Worst Space Debris Events of All Time ...

Russian engineers are scrambling to save the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft amid ever-bleaker signs the mission may be lost. The probe was launched uneventfully Nov. 8, but soon afterward its thruster ...