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Mission Phobos Grunt and the reasons behind its failure

Moscow, Russia - Engineering flaws among other things

A Russian government commission that is investigating the failure of the Russian space mission Phobos-Grunt Mars probe said that engineering flaws were the main cause, as announced yesterday, 19 January 2012, by the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin. Earlier this week it was reported that the crash could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a US...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1137060
Rome, Italy, 01/20/2012 12:32
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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