Russia's latest attempt to visit the Red Planet has, unfortunately, gone as well as its previous attempts, which is to say... poorly. We've been tracking the satellite, named Phobos-Grunt, since its
successful liftoff, failure to leave earth orbit,
abandonment, and now, destruction. Estimates indicate that Phobos-Grunt will reenter our atmosphere sometime between January 6th and the 19th, when it'll break into pieces and meet its end as a flaming ball of interplanetary fail. One consolation for the Ruskies: $165 million down the tubes is a lot less than, say,
$1.2 billion.
Phobos-Grunt Mars probe to die a fiery death in the next two weeks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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