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Latest Crew Blasts Off For International Space Station

WASHINGTON -- Three new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams,…

13 years ago

Phobos Grunt Mars Probe killed by a software glitch…maybe

The ambitious Russian Mars probe which was supposed to place a lander on Phobos was doomed by a software glitch…

13 years ago

Why did Phobos Grunt really fail?

Recent headlines were filled with a plethora of information about the reentry of the doomed Russian Spacecraft Phobos Grunt. There…

13 years ago

Russian Maridian satellite fails, rocket explodes

A Russian military launch of communications network Satellite failed On the heals of the loss of the Phobos Grunt mission…

13 years ago

Russia’s stricken Mars probe ‘contacted’

MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti) - The European Space Agency (ESA) has said it established contact with Russia’s Mars mission…

13 years ago

Bad Day to be a Russian Satellite Engineer

Reuters quotes Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as saying that he believes those responsible for recent space program failures, like Phobos-Grunt,…

13 years ago