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Russia's Martian Moon Mission Stranded in Earth Orbit

By Mark Brown, Wired UK

Russia’s Mars-bound probe Phobos-Grunt had an almost immediate engine failure after launch, and now the race is on for the space agency to correct its course and get it back on track towards the red planet.

The craft successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 9 November (Moscow time), and separated from its Zenit-2 booster rocket some 11 minutes later. But its engines failed to kick in, and it’s now trapped in Earth’s orbit.

The Russian space agency says that it now has three days to correct the probe’s fault remotely, turn on i...

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 06:01

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 9

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 9

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out...

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