Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Russian Mars Probe Faces Possible Delay

Officials are likely to recommend that the launch of Russia’s leading planetary spacecraft, scheduled to take place in less than two months, be put off until 2011. The aim of the Phobos-Grunt mission is to gather soil samples from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1753151/russian_mars_probe_faces_possible_delay/index.html?source=r_space

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