Phobos-Grunt spacecraft meant to reach Mars, never left Earth orbit. Jan. 15, 2012 — -- Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian ...

Phobos-Grunt was designed to land on Phobos, one of two moons circling the Red Planet. The ambitious mission was slated to gather rock and soil samples from Phobos and return them to Earth in 2014.

Phobos-Grunt is also carrying a Chinese probe, Yinhou-1, that would have orbited and studied Mars for two years. Hope not lost. It appears that Russia's Phobos sample-return mission will not be ...

Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which is stuck in low-Earth orbit due to an engine failure rather than on its way to Mars, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward probe ...

Phobos-Grunt is the 19th spacecraft Russia has launched toward Mars since 1960. To date, none has achieved full mission success. You can follow SPACE.com staff writer Denise Chow on Twitter.

Phobos-Grunt probe in danger of falling back to Earth next month. Nov. 10, 2011 — -- Russia's space agency admitted it was racing the clock today to save its ambitious Mars probe, Phobos ...

Russia's marooned Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, currently stuck in orbit, is headed for a mid-January plunge into Earth's atmosphere, and more than two dozen pieces of the huge spacecraft could survive ...

Phobos-Grunt's fall may add to a growing perception that the sky is falling, for it was the third uncontrolled re-entry of a big spacecraft in the last four months.

Phobos-Grunt Spacecraft Photographed on Dec. 28, 2011 Ralf Vandebergh Astrophotographer Ralf Vandebergh took this image of Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe on Dec. 28, 2011, as the troubled spacecraft ...

Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe has burnt up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere with the remaining fragments believed to have crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Phobos flyby images: proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 03 / 100315125645.htm ...

The European Space Agency has managed to make contact with Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt space probe on two consecutive nights, the agency said on Thursday. The first successful attempt to contact ...