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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

If mission controllers can't establish contact, Phobos–Grunt's orbit will gradually decay. And soon it will become just the latest spacecraft to fall back to Earth. It's a big one, too, weighing ...

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 ...

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

Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft sits atop its Zenit-2SB rocket on the pad in Kazakhstan, ready for its Nov. 8, 2011 launch toward the Martian moon Phobos. Russian space engineers seal the Mars ...