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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Phobos probe's fate shrouded in silence

Phobos probe's fate shrouded in silence: "Russian engineers continued their struggle to revive a stranded interplanetary spacecraft on Friday, but experts also began debating scenarios for the Phobos-Grunt probe's uncontrolled fall from Earth orbit.
So far, Russian controllers have failed to establish contact with the 13-ton spacecraft, leaving little hope of recovering the ambitious mission that was intended to reassert Russia's place at the front lines of space exploration."

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