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Posted on 10/01/2009 5:29:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis
China's first Mars probe mission will be delayed because of Russia's decision to postpone the launch of its mission to the Martian moon Phobos from next month to the year 2011.
Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission had been slated to lift off aboard a Zenith rocket in October on a three-year mission to study Phobos and return soil samples to Earth. Yinghuo-1 orbiter was set to be launched with the mission.
But Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, said on the agency's official website Tuesday that the mission will be delayed from October to the next launch window in 2011, in order to enhance the reliability of the project, Xinhua News Agency reported.
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bump
Grunt.. lol
Has Russia ever had a space vehicle return from the moon or anything else?
The Russians have a bad record of sending up interpanetary probes that just disappear.
I remember their probe that they sent to Phobos.
I think Venus was their great success. They beat the US and got one photo before it secumbed.
Probably something like Mission Trud or Plavda or whatever =o)
oh
So not Luna Pavlovska or something? darn.
Not Prospektyr? =o)
Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission had been slated to lift off aboard a Zenith rocket in October on a three-year mission to study Phobos and return soil samples to Earth. Yinghuo-1 orbiter was set to be launched with the mission.I'll make a wild guess right now and say that the Russian sample return mission will never take place. :')
whats the matter...did our secret (Loral) targeting technology, that Clinton gave the Chicoms have a glitch in it??
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