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Telemetry data sent from the Phobos Grunt probe decrypted (VIDEO)

Moscow, Russia - After some initial problems of deciphering the data received from the European Space Agency at Perth Station

A Russian official announced that the engineers were able to decipher the encrypted data sent from the Russian Phobos Grunt spacecraft and were received yesterday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Phobos Grunt had to go into interplanetary orbit of Mars; however, a malfunction of the propulsion system had prevented the maneuver: The probe is therefore orbiting around the Earth and the mission...

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Rome, Italy, 11/25/2011 11:51
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