Russia's space agency has so far failed to contact its $13-million unmanned Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which it lost contact with immediately after launch early on Wednesday -- and may end up as the ...

A spokesman for Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces says fragments of Russia’s failed Mars probe, Fobos-Grunt, have crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Russian news agencies quoted Colonel Aleksei ...

MOSCOW, November 21 (Itar-Tass) — The debris of the second stage of the Zenit launch vehicle that on November 9 launched into space the automatic interplanetary station Fobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil ...

Fobos-Grunt would retrieve a rock sample and bring it back to Earth, as well as help send a Chinese probe into Martian orbit. The whole plan bombed. Roscomos, the Russian space agency, ...

In 2011, Russia and China launched a joint Mars mission called Fobos-Grunt. Due to a malfunction, the spacecraft got stuck in Earth orbit, eventually falling back to Earth.

The Zenit-2SB booster rocket with the Fobos-Grunt space station was launched off the Baikonur cosmodrome on the night of November 8 MOSCOW, November 10 (Itar-Tass) —— The Zenit-2SB booster ...

Join us in London on 25-26 November for big thinking about the future. Join us in London on 25-26 November for big thinking about the future. Russian space scientists are currently locked in a ...

Russia wants a piece of Phobos. And NASA wants to go six -wheeling on Mars – again. Phobos-Grunt (or Fobos-Grunt): A name not so catchy as memorably odd. Yet it does tell the Russian space ...