Russia’s failed Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has re-entered on Sunday, following its failure to leave Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on what was supposed to be a sample return mission to the moon of Phobos. An accurate prediction of the spacecraft’s re-entry time and location will require some time to confirm, although Russian officials claim the spacecraft should have re-entered over the Pacific Ocean.
Despite a small period of time where it was hoped communications and commanding might be…
After nearly all hope was lost, the silence of the Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been broken,…
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The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
Over two years after its last launch, Russia and Ukraine’s Zenit rocket launched Wednesday, deploying…
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