Defective Russian Mars probe Fobos-Grunt lands in the Pacific Ocean
By (FINN) Frontier India News Network | January 15th, 2012 | Category: Aerospace, Russia | No Comments »Defective Russian Mars probe Fobos-Grunt returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the Pacific Ocean, Interfax news agency reports. Debris from the 13.5-ton space vehicle fell into the ocean at around 1745 GMT, said Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin. Russian space experts, monitoring the probe’s descent, kept adjusting its predicted trajectory, calculating that chances [...]
