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Russia races to rescue Phobo-Grunt Mars probe

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Channel: News Direct · 2011 · Science & Technology

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On Wednesday Russia launched its first interplanetary flight since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which is carrying China's first Mars satellite, Yinghuo-1, was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 rocket in Kazakhstan. But the probe's engines failed to fire after separation from the booster and it is now in a slowly degrading near-Earth orbit. Scientists have two weeks to reprogram the probe before its batteries run out and it becomes the largest-ever piece of space junk. Source: BBC, Planetary.org, ABC, CBS

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