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Phobos Engine Burn - FAILED - Destino: Marte - Visto de Mogi das Cruzes / SP - Brasil



Phobos Engine Burne - PHSRM_1EB - Destino Marte - Trajetória com início da queima dos propulsores - Visualizado da Cidade de Mogi das Cruzes - Região Metropolitana de São Paulo - SP - Brasil / Gravado com uma Sony Handycam DCR-SX43 em HQ 9M / Operado por Alexandre (Coelholoko) / Local Posição - Mogi das Cruzes
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Chinese and Russian probe goes wrong


A joint mission to Mars has gone out of control just moments after leaving earth, and risks crashing back down.



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Russian Scientists Try to Save Mars Moon Probe

Russian scientists were racing against the clock Wednesday to find a way to fire the engines of an unmanned probe destined to collect surface samples from a moon of Mars, after a post-launch equipment failure left it stuck in Earth orbit.
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Russian Mars probe stuck in Earth's orbit after engines fail to fire

In a forum on the mission's official website, Anton Ledkov of the Russian Space Research Institute said there were no signals from the craft. But Popovkin said officials were in contact with the probe, which remained in Earth's orbit, and they had three days to set it on course before its batteries would run out.
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Mars probe veers off course

A Russian space probe intended to collect rock and dust from a Martian moon has veered off course within minutes of starting its 33 month mission.
The Russian space agency said an engine designed to keep the probe on track failed to start. It says engineers have three days to correct the fault before batteries on the craft run out.
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Russian probe fails to set course to Mars

A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early Wednesday has failed to reach orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said.
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The Phobos-Grunt mission has not yet reached the correct transfer orbit.

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A daring Russian mission to fly an unmanned probe to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and fly samples of its soil back to Earth was derailed right after its launch by equipment failure.
The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m. Moscow time Wednesday (2016 GMT Tuesday) from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It separated from the booster about 11 minutes later and was to fire its engines twice to set out on its path to the Red Planet, but it never did.
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Nov. 8, 2016 UTC / 3:16pm EST / 5:16 JST - Zenit-2SB carrying Fobos-Grunt & Yinghuo-1

Phobos-Grunt and Phobos insertion



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A Zenit rocket, with the Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo 1 spacecrafts, has successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.



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