BBC News - Mood grim over Mars probe fault: "Russian space scientists are growing increasingly gloomy about the prospects of saving the country's $170m (£107m) mission to a moon of Mars."
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| The payload for Phobos. |
The Phobos-Grunt probe launched successfully on Wednesday but then failed to fire an engine to put it on the correct course to the Red Planet. A failure for Russia is also disquieting for anyone who is a supporter of space exploration. It's success is even more important now that NASA has much less dollars to spend...so let's hope that their scientists can somehow find an 11th hour solution.
