The Russian Space Agency launched a sample return mission to Phobos in November 2011, called Fobos-Grunt. It failed in Earth orbit. On 1 July 2020, the Mars orbiter of the Indian Space Research ...

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 ...

Chandrayaan 2 consisted of the Lunar orbiter, Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover and the mission was so filled with delays (Roscosmos and ISRO had signed a deal, but the failure of the Fobos ...

In 2011, Russian engineers launched an unmanned probe called Fobos-Grunt from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on a two-year journey to Mars.

Fobos-Grunt spacecraft prior to integration on its Zenit booster rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 18, 2011. After launch in December, its second-stage booster failed to fire ...

Luna 25 failed in its mission to soft-land near the moon’s south pole, due to a technical glitch. The mission was part of Russia's attempt to demonstrate its economy's resilience and to ensure ...

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 ...

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 and fell back to Earth ...

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 ...

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 ...