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The wreckage of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft haven't yet even settled at the bottom of the ocean, but officials at the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) are already revealing new plans to send a spacecraft to the diminutive Martian moon.
It's hard to say what drives the Russians in this quest, since ... |
1 February 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Officials at the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) reconciled themselves to the idea that the Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is lost, and are now waiting for its inevitable fall. According to predictions, the probe will crash in Afghanistan on January 14.
This is only an estimate, the RIA Novosti news ag... |
27 December 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the commands they sent to the Russian failed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft did not manage to force it to heighten its orbit. ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) believed that this would allow better communications with the probe.
The mission fail... |
1 December 2011
04:22 GMT |
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on November 22 that one of the organization's listening stations, in Perth, Australia, received a signal from the Russian-built Phobos-Grunt spacecraft.
The sample-return mission launched on November 8, heading for the Martian moon Phobos. However, upon reac... |
23 November 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Days are passing by, and Russian engineers are still unable to contact the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. The Mars-bound mission failed shortly after launch, when its main thrusters failed to initialize and put it on a course towards the Red Planet. Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) mission controllers attempted t... |
12 November 2011
06:59 GMT |
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Yesterday, November 8, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) managed to successfully launch its Phobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon Phobos. Unfortunately, the spacecraft failed as soon as it reached Earth's orbit.
RosCosmos officials say that the main thrusters aboard the probe failed to ignite pro... |
9 November 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Officials at the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announce that the Phobos-Grunt mission will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on November 9. Launch will occur at 00.26 am Moscow time (2026 GMT, November 8).
The sample-return mission will be delivered to space aboard a Zenit-2SB roc... |
29 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Officials with the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announced recently that they plan to launch the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft within three weeks. This is a sample-return mission that the Russians have been working on for some time, and it's aimed at one of the diminutive Martian moons.
Phobos and Deimos... |
13 October 2011
06:22 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announces that its Martian orbiter was recently able to compile a vast set of data about Phobos, one of the two moons revolving around the Red Planet. The achievement is significant, especially given how little scientists actually know about this space object. For starters, it's n... |
12 May 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Exploring the Red Planet is something that space agency expect to be able to do with humans starting in the mid-2030s. By 2035 or 2036, astronauts need to set food on Mars, and finally begin exploring our neighboring planet. But there are still some large obstacles to pass before that happens, experts say, and so may... |
20 April 2011
09:22 GMT |
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An orbiter operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) around Mars has recently captured a new series of images of one of the least reflective bodies in the solar system, the moon Phobos. The object is the target of an upcoming Russian sample-return mission. Phobos is the largest moon around the Red Planet, experts s... |
25 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Not many people know that Mars has two small moons. And not many astronomers know the reason why these two space bodies exist in orbit around the Red Planet. Now, a debate on their origin brings three competing theories seeking to explain their existence face to face. The discussion is focused on the Martian moon Pho... |
6 January 2011
09:56 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the material which makes up the Martian moon Phobos was created billions of years ago, when a comet or asteroid impacted the Red Planet.This theory is remarkably similar to the one seeking to explain how our own Moon formed. Experts say it coalesced from the d... |
27 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Today, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) have released images snapped by the orbiter Mars Express of the Martian moon Phobos. The flyby mission took place on March 7, and it brought the spacecraft the closest to the space rock of any other flights to the area. The instruments aboard the ESA orbiter manage... |
15 March 2010
07:41 GMT |
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On March 3, the European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter Mars Express conducted the closest flyby ever of the Martian moon Phobos. At the point of closest approach, the spacecraft was just 67 kilometers above the surface of this enigmatic moon, which has never been surveyed in such vivid detail before. Previous investigat... |
5 March 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that their space probe Mars Express will be conducting its closest flyby ever around the moon Phobos this Wednesday, March 3. The event is very important, as it will allow astronomers to collect a wealth of completely new data on the Martian moon, which is not ve... |
1 March 2010
11:12 GMT |
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Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that their orbiter, Mars Express, is about to begin its new campaign to survey the moon Phobos, one of the two companions the Red Planet has. The investigations will take place for about a month, with peak observations capabilities scheduled to be reached on Mar... |
16 February 2010
10:58 GMT |
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The Mars Express orbiter has been in orbit around the Red Planet since Christmas Day, 2003, and has produced invaluable amounts of scientific data on our closest neighbor in the solar system. Recently, experts at the European Space Agency, which manage the mission, announced that the spacecraft had just completed its... |
29 January 2010
09:58 GMT |
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The Russian space agency RosCosmos has recently announced that it will delay its planned Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars' moon Phobos to 2011, a two-year delay from the original launch date, which was set for this year. Officials from the agency say that, since they cannot send the probe now, they will be forced to... |
26 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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While the Red Planet has gotten a lot of attention from both space agencies and the general public over the past few decades, Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, have experienced a lot less of it. A few fly-by flights and some telescope observations make up all the science associated with them. But now, an internati... |
5 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Not many people know that the Red Planet, which has been intensely-scrutinized over the past few years with several rovers and orbiters, also has two very small moons, Deimos and Phobos. Discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, the two celestial bodies orbiting Mars are thought to be captured asteroids that can no longer es... |
10 March 2009
04:15 GMT |
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BFG Technologies, one of NVIDIA's largest graphics card partners, has just announced that it has begun taking orders for its first computer system, the newly announced Phobos, a gaming rig specifically designed for technology enthusiasts. With the announcement, the company has also put out a website where users ... |
23 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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If the Russian plan is successful, a launch this October could take colonies of resistant bacteria from Earth to one of Mars' moons and then back home, the RosCosmos agency announced recently. In addition to making the trip to Phobos, Mars' closest orbiting moon, the mission will also deploy a Chinese Yingh... |
7 January 2009
18:01 GMT |
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BFG Technologies, one of the largest NVIDIA-based graphics card makers, has just added a new product to its portfolio. Simply dubbed Phobos, the new model comes as a fully-configured high-performance desktop computer system, designed to accommodate the requirements of multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. The company th... |
7 January 2009
10:34 GMT |
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About a billion years ago, there was a pair of small moons revolving each other in close orbit with Mars. One of them, Phobos, is still performing its regular cyclic patrols around the red planet, but the other, as experts believe, has broken into pieces, entered the atmosphere, and eventually smashed on Mars' ... |
27 October 2008
01:32 GMT |
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Mars has 2 small natural satellites in its orbit – Phobos (“fear”), the smaller, innermost, faster-orbiting one, and Deimos (“dread”), the larger, slower one, found on a less proximal orbit. Recent observations of the former indicate that it does not present the features of a compact sp... |
21 October 2008
05:19 GMT |
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took lately a couple of pictures of the Martian surface revealing some sand dunes, on the Hellespontus region of the planet, looking strikingly similar to a series of hoofmarks. According to NASA, such surface formations have also been spotted on Earth and are called barchan du... |
14 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Mars' largest and closest moon, Phobos, was recently photographed with the help of the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, during a fly-by through its vicinity. 3D color images of the small moon reveal a material rim around its biggest surface structure, the Stickney crater, measuring 9 kilom... |
10 April 2008
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As the gas giant presents a tilt of 98 degrees from its orbit plane, during the solstice the poles point directly towards the Sun, triggering some extreme changes in solar illumination, seen in all the bodies in the solar system. This usual inclination presents great importance for planetary astronomers such as Heidi... |
5 December 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Unlike our planet Earth which has a single large moon, Mars, our red neighbor, has two small asteroids that act as moons: Phobos and Deimos, in low orbit around the planet. Recent survey of the two asteroids, made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, while on the night side of the planet reveals their ... |
29 November 2007
06:50 GMT |
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Mars might not offer us too much, but its small moons may. The solar system exploration program which predicted that a base for future spaceflights would be built on our Moon is now turning towards Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists say these are the most accessible planetary bodies in our sola... |
9 November 2007
05:35 GMT |
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