Similar issues came to light over a decade ago with the failed Fobos-Grunt mission in 2011, when Russia’s spacecraft headed to Mars couldn’t even exit Earth’s orbit before falling back and ...

More than a decade ago, the failure of the 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars underscored the challenges facing Russia's space program: it could not even exit the earth's orbit ...

The Russian Space Agency attempted a sample return mission to Phobos in 2011 named Fobos-Grunt, but after safely reaching Earth orbit, the spacecraft failed to initiate the burn necessary to fly ...

Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet ...

More than a decade ago, the failure of the 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars underscored the challenges facing Russia’s space program: it could not even exit the earth’s ...

In 2011, Russia’s ambitious Fobos-Grunt mission to a moon of Mars failed without even exiting Earth’s orbit, crashing into the Pacific Ocean in 2012. With reporting by Reuters, AP, and TASS.

The recent news that Russia’s Luna 25 Moon lander had made an unexpected lithobraking detour into the Moon’s surface, rather than the expected soft touchdown was met by a variety of res… ...

More than a decade ago, the failure of the 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars underscored the challenges facing Russia’s space programme: it could not even exit the earth’s ...

While Luna-25 went beyond the earth's orbit - unlike the failed 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars - the crash could impact Russia's moon programme, which envisages several more ...

More than a decade ago, the failure of the 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission to one of the moons of Mars underscored the challenges facing Russia's space programme: it could not even exit the earth's orbit ...